[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Carlisle City.

  • Carlisle (England). City Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Carlisle City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hygienic laws. In the same way we may expect a corres- ponding decline in cattle tuberculosis when more attention is bestowed upon the health of the bovine species. Should the Government ever be induced to give compensation for compulsory slaughter of tuberculous dairy cattle, they ought to insist upon hardy breeds being used as milkers, and enforce strict regulations as to housing and feeding.” The Local Government Board, unfortunately, could not see their way to confirm the decision of the Council as to the last regulation. There are, possibly, difficulties in the way of giving this recommendation practical effect, but for my own part I do not see any more objection to the notification of the three tubercular diseases mentioned than there is to the notification of Diarrhoea, which is recom- mended by the Local Government Board as a temporary expedient when Asiatic Cholera threatens to invade this country. If there be insuperable difficulties in the way of including the principal tubercular diseases in the Infectious Diseases Notification Act, there can be none to a voluntary notification from medical men connected with public medical charities and from Poor Law medical officers, among whose patients tubercular diseases chiefly prevail. I feel sure such medical officers would willingly give the Corporation the necessary information for a merely nominal sum. The information obtained in this way would afi’ord valuable data as a basis for future action, such as the distribution of printed instructions for the prevention of pulmonary phthisis, the disinfection of premises recently vacated by consumptive patients, and the improvement of the sanitary state of dwellings. I am. Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, WILLIAM BROWN, Medical Officer of Health. Carlisle, January ISth, 1899.