[Report 1892] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight Rural District Council.

  • Isle of Wight (England). Rural District Council. n 83204987.
Date:
1892
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Credit: [Report 1892] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight Rural District Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the disease did not spread beyond the individuals attacked. There was a fourth case in October less clearly traceable to the same source. It was that of a child who attended the North wood Day and the Gurnard Sabbath Schools. At the end of April two children who attended the Parish School at Binstead had scarlatina, but the source of the con¬ tagion could not be discovered. In January a child attending a private school in Pyde had scarlatina at Haylands. A week after, two of her sisters at¬ tending the Bettesworth Poad School were attacked, and, subsequently, two other children in the same family. The case of a young married woman was notified in November. She had not left her room from the time of her confinement a month previously. A lodger in the house was employed in a grocer’s shop at Pyde. Another case at Haylands, that of an infant of two years, was notified in December, but the source of it could not be discovered. On September 17th the case of a child living near Harding- shute and attending the Ashey School, who had a rash and sore throat at the end of August, was notified because it was peeling. She was visited from Brading by a different medical man in August. The poison was apparently picked up among some children at Duxmoor, several of whom appear to have had scarlatina, and, although medically attended, their cases were not notified. In May a child resident at Yarbridge, Brading, had scarlatina. Seven days before she took ill she had been in the company of a child of Alverstone, who had the disease a year previously. Six days before the illness commenced she went to stay at Pyde, and occupied a bedroom which had been tenanted apparently by a child who had suffered from some contagious affection. In August a girl living in the New Poad, Brading, de¬ veloped scarlatina a week after returning from a visit to Kingston, near Portsmouth. Scarlatina was prevalent at the time at Sandown, which place she visited, and where her father was engaged in business. She was isolated at the Pyde Infirmary on August 23rd. On October 9th her sister had the disease, and was removed to the Infirmary on October 13th, she being still there. At the beginning of April, a child in Alfred Poad, Lake, who attended the Sandown National School, into which scarlatina was said to have been introduced from Newport, had the disease. About the same time, a young man was removed for isolation to a cottage in Newport Poad, Lake, from his home, at Sandown, whither he was brought with scarlatina from the College at Pyde. At the end of April and the beginning of May five children in a family living in Stag Poad, Lake, and attending the
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