[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, East Kerrier R.D.C.
- East Kerrier (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, East Kerrier R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![cases of Erysipelas as are notified, chiefly slight facial attacks, as of any importance and certainly not worth the expense that they entail in notifica- tion fees: they endanger no one and the money spent over them could be put to much better use in notifying such a disease as Phthisis, and especially if we could deal with it as we do with the notifiable zymotic diseases. Of the twelve cases notified one was in Budock, six in Mylor, one in Perran-ar-worthal, two in Constantine, one in Mabe, and one in Mawnan. St. Gluvias for two consecutive years comes out] with a clean slate. We are again able to congratulate ourselves on the few cases of zymotic diseases notified in 1905, one less than in 1904 and 1903, and one more than in 1902, but many less than in the years immediately preceding, for in 1901 there were thirty cases : in 1900, twenty-eight; in 1899, forty-nine; in 1898, thirty-two ; and in 1897, forty-one. Of the cases of Erysipelas two were in Mylor and one in Perran- ar-worthal. Of the cases of Diphtheria one was in Budock, four in Mylor, two in Constantine, one in Mabe and one in Mawnan. These cases were distributed as much all over the year as they were spread over the district. The first case was in Gweek in February, and was in the same house in which there were four cases in November, 1904. These four cases were contracted at a school beyond the limits of our district, an epidemic of this disease having broken out among the school- children, At the proper time the house in Gweek](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29183935_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
