[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Isle of Wight) Urban Sanitary District.
- Newport (Isle of Wight, England). Urban Sanitary District.
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Isle of Wight) Urban Sanitary District. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Notifiable Diseases.—Under the Infectious Diseases Notification Act of 1889, the following diseases have been notified during the year : Typhoid fever 6, continued fever 3, diphtheria 21, scarlet fever 5, erysipelas 6, and membra¬ nous croup 42. The following table shows all the cases that h ave been notified during the past five years:— ] 901 . 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. Typhoid fever 16 o o 6 9 6 Continued fever ... 13 5 2 o o o o Diphtheria 21 6 16 5G 21 Scarlet fever 21 1 19 i 5 Erysipelas 4 5 o o 4 6 Puerperal fever ... 1 0 0 0 0 Membranous croup 0 0 0 0 1 Typhus fever 0 0 0 0 0 Small-pox 0 0 0 0 0 Total 76 20 46 66 48 The following are the particulars of the cases notified during the year under review :— Typhoid Fever.—There were six cases of typhoid fever—one proved fatal. No sanitary defects were found in any of the houses at which these cases occurred, but two had taken a long walk in the country and had drunk heartily of milk and water while on the road and were taken ill about a week afterwards. Another was an imported case from Calbourne. I failed to trace any cause for the remaining three. Continued Fever.—There were three cases of this disease notified. They were all slight and call for no re¬ mark. Diphtheria.—There were 21 cases of this disease noti¬ fied during the year as against 56 in the preceding year. Five were fatal. Every case was injected with antitoxin.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29907652_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
