[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough.
- Doncaster (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1r) 3 of these cases were very slight and less care was taken in keeping ] the sick and healthy apart. 36 cases of enteric or typhoid fever were reported ; among ^tericFever these 4 died. Up to the beginning of August only 6 cases of that fever occurred. In 5 houses there were 10 cases, and only 2 of these were removed to the hospital, when the second case occurred. 11 cases of that fever were treated at Carr House. Several of these passed through a long severe illness which the resources of the hospital were better able to meet than very many homes. One case was removed from a sloop on the canal. The largest proportion of the cases were reported from the South Ward, in houses near to each other. Complaints were made by some householders affected that offensive smells came from the drains near their houses. There was, however, the more direct influence of infection in the same house to explain some of these cases. To try and lessen this danger the Sanitary Committee sanctioned a trial of providing sanitary pails, to receive all infected matters, which are carefully disinfected and removed. That plan has not had a long enough experience in Doncaster ; in other districts it has assisted in controlling the spread of this fever. Only one case was reported during December. What has been reported in dealing with the pre- valence of diarrhoea during the autumn applies to these cases of enteric fever. Three-fourths of the cases occurred during the months of August, September, and October, and as the two diseases were prevalent at the same time, with their special symptoms attacking the same organs of the body, there is a strong reason to suspect an origin for both due to similar unsanitary conditions. An inquiry was made about each case ; at 22 houses a privy and ashpit were used and for 9 houses a w.c. and a so-called dry ashpit. Many of the sink drains had the very uncertain iron bell-trap in use, and these were found repeatedly in a defective state. The milk supply was never to blame, as the purveyors were seldom the same at any two houses. On Saturday evening of the Race week a stranger was reported to be ill of severe English chclera ; he was removed at once to Carr House and no other case occurred.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29162774_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
