Remarks by the Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow, on 'Report by Kilwinning Local Authority to the Board of Supervision', in reference to outbreak of enteric fever in Glasgow, and the sanitary condition of dairy farms.

  • Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
Date:
1885
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Credit: Remarks by the Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow, on 'Report by Kilwinning Local Authority to the Board of Supervision', in reference to outbreak of enteric fever in Glasgow, and the sanitary condition of dairy farms. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    '« Finally, the Board call upon the Sanitary Inspector to report what has been done at the end of a month from this date. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) JOHN SKELTON, Secretary. *' Mr. Andrew Macrorie, Clerk to the Local Authority, Kilwinning. This is not the first time that Glasgow has suffered from the judiciousness and firmness of the Local Authority of Kilwinning. Under date 24th January, 1881, I submitted a report on cases of infectious sickness at dairy farms, in which I traced an out- break of Enteric Fever on the south-side of the City in December, 1880, to a farm in Kilwinning Parish, the tenant of which had been ill of Enteric Fever for a month prior to our discovery of the case, and had been attended hy the gentleman who is now Medical Officer to the Local Authority of Kilwinning. I visited and inspected this farm on 30th December, 1880, and in my report you will find this item in my description of its sanitaiy condition:— The pumi>well was just outside the back door of the passage, said to be fed l)y surface drains. The final washing after the patient's recovery had been carried out on the previous day in this passage, whose relations are described above. My report was printed and forwarded by you to the Board of Super- vision. It was by them sent to the Local Authority of Kilwinning, as my recent report was, and you will find at p.-824 of your printed Minutes for 1881 the following passage:— The Clerk submitted letter from the Secretary of the Board of Supervision, dated 19th inst., respecting outbreak of enteric fever at a dairy farm in the parish of Kilwinning referred to in previous minutes, along with copy of a letter from Mr. A. Macrorie, Clerk to the Local Authority of Kilwinning, and relative copy minute of meeting of Sanitary Committee of Kilwinning Local Authority, held on 7th February curt., on the subject, which minute, inter alia,Bets forth that—'The committee have to state that, until they 'received the above communication from the Board of Supervision ' [ie., communication as to said infected dairy] they were not ' aware that there was any fever or other illness in the family ' referred to, or that they were transmitting their milk to Glas- ' gow for sale there or elsewhere.
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