[Report 1901] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight R.D.C.
- Isle of Wight (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1901] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE SANITARY GENERALLY AT STATE OF THE DISTRICT THE END OF THE YEAR. Epidemic diseases were more than usually prevalent at the end of the year. Health of the district. There were cases of measles at Parkhurst and in the Measles Newport district and at Binstead. Scarlet fever was epidemic in the Freshwater district, scarlet fever and at Brading and Haylands, and there was a case or two convalescing at Wootton. There were cases of whooping cough at Niton and ™}££pine Whitwell, Rookley and elsewhere. Diphtheria was epidemic at Brading, there were Diphtheria several cases in one cottage at St. Lawrence, and there were cases at Parkhurst and in the neighbourhood of Newport, and it prevailed at Brighstone. At the extreme eastern end of the Isle of Wight, east M EDENB* Bembridge, a scattered watering place which promises Jic]uhi,iilr(i to become prosperous in the future, is in a fair way of becoming satisfactory as regards its sanitation. It is sewered, but the sewers are not properly flushed from want of a water supply. It is scavenged. The water supply from surface wells and stored rain water, is unsatisfactory in any case, and about August the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29754148_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
