[Report 1881] / Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool City.

  • Liverpool City Council
Date:
1881
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Credit: [Report 1881] / Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MORTUARIES. Daring the year 51 bodies were, by order of the Justices on the certificate of the Medical Officer, removed to the Mortuaries provided by the Council under section 142 of the Public Health Act, 1875. CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE REPORTED DURING 1881. Year—1881. Small Pox. Fever. Scarlatina. Measles. Diphtheria Total. January . 1 86 96 28 5 216 February. 1 60 56 21 5 143 March . 8 80 71 19 5 183 April. 3 131 43 38 5 220 May . 34 120 48 90 5 297 June. 108 83 56 147 3 397 July . 56 77 74 308 6 521 August. 20 86 103 219 6 434 September ... 12 130 155 274 4 575 October. 5 111 200 361 13 690 November ... 7 121 224 422 6 780 December. 7 122 172 299 7 607 Total. 262 1207 1298 2226 70 5063 Removed to Hospital........ 199 813 i—i GO Gjt 81 5 1283 Of the patients removed to Hospital the following were conveyed by the Sanitary Officers 424 cases of Fever and Scarlatina, 130 cases of Small Pox, 8 cases of Measles, and 2 cases of Diphtheria, making a total of 564 persons. 150 were taken to Netherfield Road Hospital, 342 to the Parish Workhouse Hospital, 2 to Toxteth Workhouse Hospital, 68 to West Derby Union Hospital, and 2 to Children’s Infirmary, Myrtle Street. In accordance with the arrangement made with the School Board, 2656 post cards were sent to the Head Masters of the various schools, informing them that children from infected houses attended their schools. Similar information was sent to the School Board. DISINFECTION OF HOUSES. In all cases of infectious disease the houses were disinfected, free of cost, with sulphurous gas, by officers appointed by the Health Committee ; but when¬ ever there was sickness in any room of the house, so as to endanger health by the use of sulphurous gas, carbolic acid powder was freely sprinkled in the rooms and passages of the house until the sulphurous gas could be used safely. No house is considered properly disinfected until sulphurous gas has been used. The existence of sickness, and the consequent employment of carbolic acid powder, necessitate many visits by the persons in charge of disinfection. There were in all 5,484 visits paid during the year to houses for the purpose of disinfection, the number of houses properly disinfected being 2,040.
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