Report of Dr. Sidney Coupland on the outbreak of small-box in the Dewsbury Union in 1891-2.

  • Coupland, Sidney, 1849-1930.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Report of Dr. Sidney Coupland on the outbreak of small-box in the Dewsbury Union in 1891-2. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Proof. rConfidential.] Report of Dr. Sidney Coupland on the Outbreak of Small-pox in the Dewsbury Union in 1891-2. CONTENTS, Introduction. Part I.—General account of the district as regards area, population, zymotic history, sanitary administration, notification, isolation, and vaccinafdon. Part II.—Small-pox in 1891-2 : a general analysis of the whole outbreak. Part III.—8mall-pox in 1891-2: history of the epidemic in the various districts of the Union and analysis of the leading facts of its incidenee in Batley, Dewsbury, and the other districts of the Dewsbury Union. Part IV.—Vaccination in relation to small-pox in this epidemic. Introduction. During the year 1891 small-pox prevailed in certain parts of the West Riding of Yorkshire, especially in the districts of the Dewsbury Union. The outbreak increased in severity at the beginning of 1892, and in compliance with instructions received from the Chairman of the Royal Commission on Vaccination I proceeded to Leeds on March 31st, 1892, to institute an inquiry into its course and extent. I desire at the outset to express my warm thanks to Dr. Whiteleggo, the Medical Officer to the West Riding County Council, for his valuable advice and assistance in initiating the inquiry, which did so much to facilitate a task somewhat foreign to my usual avocations. I also lost no time in putting myself into communication with the local authorities and the medical officers of the Dewsbury Registration District, who cordially gave me every information and assistance. I learnt that the epidemic, which had been of considerable proportions, was then apparently declining, and that the inquiry would embrace an extended personal investigation if it were to any degree to fulfil the objects aimed at. The plan entailed a personal house-to-house visitation of every dwelling of which one or more inmates had suffered from the disease, and it soon became evident that to have attempted this single-handed would have involved a very great expenditure of time. Accordingly I applied to the Chairman of the Royal Commission for permission to have the co-operation of Mr. E. A. Fardon, the resident medical officer of the Middlesex Hospital, during a part at least of the inquiry. That permission was given, and my thanks are due to the weekly board of the Middlesex Hospital for granting me the use of Mr. Fardon's services. The value of those services cannot be estimated too highly. o 82692. 60.—7/94. Wt. 6483. E. & S. A