[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Paul U.D.C.

  • Paul (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1894
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    [5] Hospital Accommodation: Isolation and Disinfection. I do not know what steps your Authority intend taking for providing- necessary isolation and disinfection in the near future. Recent experience has shown the futility of attempting isolation in the great majority of the homes at Newlyn and at Mousehole, and our present efforts at disinfection of clothing, &c., by means of germicide solutions are necessarily very imperfect. A Hospital for Infectious Diseases is about to be erected by the Borough of Penzance, within easy reach of your district, and is to include a provision of 16 beds and of an efficient Steam Disinfecting Apparatus. It is much to be hoped that Penzance will see the propriety of admitting cases and clothes for disinfection from your own and other neighbouring districts at a reasonable charge, and that its immediate neighbours on all sides will promptly avail themselves of this economical provision. The interests of districts in such close touch with each other are in this matter identical. It is also greatly to be desired that the West Penwith Rural Sanitary Authority will see fit to adopt the Infectious Disease Notification Act. The evil of a blind and prejudiced policy cannot, unfortunately, be limited to their own district, and neighbouring authorities have an undoubted right to protest against the assaults upon the health of their people, and the nullification of their own preventive efforts that ensue. I am, Gentlemen, Faithfully yours, RICHARD DAVEY BOASE, MO.H. Paul U.S D 5, Morrab Road, Penzance, Jamiary Jist, 1895. F. RODDA, STEAM PRINTER, PENZANCE.