[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Paul U.D.C.

  • Paul (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Paul U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [6] the former is the better coarse. I recommend that in future a register be kept by the Inspector of Nuisances of all cases visited by him, in accordance with the subjoined form :— Infectious Dis. Cert. No. Disease. Medical Attendant . Date Cert. Reed. .. Name of Patient. Situation of House. Name of Tenant. ,, Owner or Agent. Address of „ . No. of Rooms, Living. „ Sleeping. No. of Inmates, aged 10 or over . „ under 10 years. „ Lodgers . Schools attended by Members of Household Water Supply . Milk Supply. Privy accommodation. Drainage . ACTION TAKEN. REMARKS. Isolation .... Disinfection . Stool-disposal At the same time notification should be made to the Head Master of the schools concerned. The Case of Smallpox. In my monthly report for August I have already drawn your attention to our proceedings in connection with the case of Smallpox at Mousehole, notified July 24th. The house in which the patient lay being of good size, satisfactory isolation was enforced. Body-linen was ordered to be periodically well washed and disinfected in solution of perchloride of mercury (1 in 1000). On the death of the patient on August 2nd the mattress, bedtie, blankets, bed-linen and body-linen were burnt. The deceased was on the night of her death screwed down in a pitch-lined, felt-sealed coffin, and the funeral quietly conducted on the morrow. Sanitas was freely sprinkled over the room and its contents, which were fumigated with sulphur for 24 hours, then freely aired and cleansed with perchloride of mercury solution (1 in 1000), and finally washed with plenty •of soap and water. It is extremely gratifying to record that no further cases arose.