[Report 1881] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County.

  • Newcastle upon Tyne (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1881
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Credit: [Report 1881] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . > «i The next ease occurred in A])ril at a residence in Osborne Road. The patient, who was nnvaccinated, recovered. Infection extended to a servant wlio bore marks of vaccination in infancy; she was very slightly afFected. Two other cases in the same month were reported in Stowed Scpiare. In ^lay the disease appeared in Buckingham Street, Stowed Square, j\Ionk Street, Brudhoc Place, Quayside, Edison Terrace, Trafalgar Street, Jesmond Dene, and l\Lolyneux Street, Byker. In June cases were reported at York Street (Elswick Road), West Street, Thornton Street (? Market Street), Stowed Street, Molyneux Street, IMorrison Street (Shicldfield), and Railway Street (Scotswood Road). In July, cases at Railway Terrace, Crucible Place, George Street, Hedley Terrace, Buckingham Street, and Stowed Square. In August, at Railway Terrace, Back Lane (Gallowgate). The Friars, Dawson’s Court (Westgate Street), and the Blackgate. In September, at Harle and Bed Streets (Westgate Road). In October, at Railway Terrace and Street, Cannon Street (Scotswood Road), Seaham Street, Percy Court, Trafalgar Street, Jesmond Vale (6 cases in one family), and Parker Street fByker). In November, at Cannon Street (9 cases), Stanley Street, Crispin Street (Bentinck), Harle Street, Villa Place, Hid Street, Percy Court, and Leazes Lane. In December, at Gloucester Road, Prudhoe Street, Percy Place, Terrace Place, and Orchard Street. It is satisfactory to be able to report that this outbreak is at an end. The last case was discharged from the Hospital on the 3rd February, 1882. The causes of spread of the outbreak have been (1) Neglect of vaccina¬ tion or revaccination, and (2) Direct contagion from the infected to the non¬ in fected. The first of these causes is exemplified by the household in Parker Street already mentioned, in which the disease first appeared; also in the group of G cases at Railway Terrace. In two of the infected households in the latter street the excuse of the parents for neglecting the vaccination of their children w'as that they were too delicate.” In one of these the result of this mistaken kindness was that the child contracted a severe form of Smad-pox and died. The fodowdng are illus¬ trations from the experience of last year of different modes by which Smad-pox may be communicated: — c