[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council.

  • Durham County Council
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1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Not for Publication. No. 59- 80-7-9-97- c. T.. D. DURHAM SUMMARY OF RETURNS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Cases Notified or Ascertained during the month ending 31st AUGUST, 1897. One case of small-pox was reported from the County Borough of South Shields, and also from the district of the River Tyne Port. Scarlet fever showed a tendency to increase in prevalence in some districts, and was rather prevalent in Hebburn, Felling, and Ryton. As in previous months very few cases of diphtheria and mem¬ branous croup were reported. There was an increase in the number of cases of enteric fever notified, but the incidence was not marked except in the Borough of Sunderland. Measles was reported as prevalent in a few districts, and schools were closed in some of the villages of the Sedgefield rural district on account of its prevalence. Diarrhoea was very fatal in many districts, especially in the County Boroughs and Jarrow. T. EUSTACE HILL, County Medical Officer of Health. Durham, September 7th, 1897.
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