[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Melbourn R.D.C.

  • Melbourn (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1900
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Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Melbourn R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iiotifiocl. 'Two cusc's in two Iiousoliokls ut lUirring’toii wcih' notitied in the iniddlo of April and the end of June respectivxJy. 'Die orio'in of infection in the tirst case conld not be accounted for. O 'IJie second case conld be traced wdtli some degree of probability to infection at Wimpole where there wnis a liistory of the existence of some cases of this disease. One case in July at Steeple Morden wnis that of a boy who attended school at Asliw^ell where there is a history of a child recovering from this disease returning to school and is adverted to in my report for that district. One case at Shepreth in the middle of November wms that of a child who had been some wmeks before residing at Chesterton where Diphtheria was present^ but the infection could not be distinctly traced to this source. Two cases of Typhoid Fever in two households were notified at Melbourip one in May and the other in December. The earlier case which ended fatally occurred at Melbonrn Moor at a house where the Avater supply Avas found to be highly polluted; no other source of infection could be traced. The second case occurred in a part of the High Street Avhere cases of Typhoid FoAmr have been occurring from time to time for the past seAmral years. In regard to this case it is remarkable that the Avater supply on chemical analysis Avas proAmd to be unpolluted Avith organic matter^ from Avhich and other examples I am inclined to think that chemical analysis alone is not a sufficient guarantee of freedom from disease germs. It Avill be obserAmd in the mortality Schedule of Table IV. that two deaths from this disease are recorded. One has already been referred to above ; the other occured at KneesAvorth and although the disease proved fatal during January of the year under revieAv its inception and notification occurred in December 1899. School closure_, school exclusion^ isolation at home and disinfection haAm been the precautionary measures adopted. Representatives of the Joint Hospital Board for the Mel bourn and AsliAvell Rural and Royston Urban Districts rcspecti\mly, Avhich Avas established by ProAdsional Order at the close of the year 1898^ held an informal conference Avith the Medical and Architectural Departments of the Local Govern¬ ment Board at 'W^hitehallj on ThnrsdaAg January 4th^ and nlterfdions in tlu' building ])hms w('rc‘ snggesti'd, nnd tin* Tyijlioid Fever. Isolation Hospital.
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