[Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashborne U.D.C.
- Ashbourne (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashborne U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![10 swabs in the Laboratory, necessitating, I am afraid, a good deal of wearing monotonous work at high pressure as well as many hours of over-time. At the first complete examination of the Schools over a hundred carriers were found, and as it was im- possible to isolate many of these at their homes, and impossible in many more to carry out the work of dis- infection properly, it was decided to utilise the buildings of the temporary Hos])ital at Bradley Wood to isolate and treat those who could not be properly treated at home. The accommodation soon p)roved to be insufficient and tents with f)oarded floors were erected to supplement the wooden buildings already in existence. Bedsteads were provided for the girls, but for reasons of economy, the boys were bedded on mattresses placed on wooden floors. Fortunately the weather was fine except for one wet week-end, when a great deal of anxiety was caused, and much extra work entailed by the rain getting through the tents and soaking all the bedding and beds, and lead- ing temporarily to a great deal of inconvenience and to overcrowding of the 65 children who were then in hos- })ital, into the wooden buildings. Altogether 149 carriers passed through the hospital, and for some weeks the numl)er of children under treat- ment averaged 95, Only one child developed Diphtheria while under observation in the hospital, and she began within the first few days after admission, before treatment had aclually been started. The usual time of staying in hospital was between two and 3 weeks, but about 10 re- (|uired longer, and several cases could not be freed from the bacilli under 7 or 8 weeks. No patient was discharged until two consecutive negative swabs had been obtained from both nose and throat. The staff' consisted of two](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28809610_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
