[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough.
- Doncaster (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Small-pox. Diphtheria and membranous cron]). Cases treated in Carr House. . Two cases of small-pox were treated in the Hospital in 1894 ; one was the result of infection from cases of the previous year, the other was a tramp who shciwed the disease the following day after coming to Doncaster from Sheffield. Tlie hushand was also kept in quarantine there for a time, lest he might also have caught the infection. He was not affected. From diphtheria, diphtheritic croup, and membranous croup there w’ere 19 cases; there were 4 deaths, 3 of these were of very young children who were notified as ill of membranous croup. The death-rate from cases of diphtheria was only 6 per cent, of the persons attacked. In only 2 houses was a second case reported. A careful examination of the sanitary surroundings in and near the several houses did not give any satisfactory reason for the occurrence of the disease. In a few cases the drains were badly trapped ; but the great majority of the cases were evidently traceable to cold. The 4 cases of puerperal fever were not traceable to any source of infection. Fifteen persons from Doncaster were last year treated to Carr House Hospital. 2 suffered from small-pox. 3 ,, ,, scarlet fever. 9 ,, ,, enteric fever. 1 w^as placed there in quarantine. Qjie child was only 3 years old, and 5 were under 17 years of age. The cases were there under treatment throughout the greater part of the year.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29162762_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
