[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1899
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    126/182 (page 116)
    are notifiable, (2) measles in its three groups, (3) croup and laryngitis, not certified as diphtheria or membranous croup, and (4) diarrhoea. Re-arrangement of facts tabled.—An even more important change has been made in the nature of the table. It is more distinctly analytic than previously. A table for the two years 1897-98, intended to be to some extent of this character, was included in the appendix for 1898. By a re-arrangement of the methods of tabulation we are now able to extend this analytical process still further. Table 25 is now printed upon two pages instead of one. On the first page, to the left of the names of the diseases, are the houses in which all wastes (other than the drain of the water closet, where this was inside the house) have been severed from the sewer. On the right-hand page the corresponding groups deal with houses in which the drains were not all disconnected from the house. In both groups, the through houses and the back-to-back houses are placed in separate lines, and in both groups the houses with inside water closets, with outside water closets, with troughs and with middens or pails, are grouped according as some defect, other than the one of construction, was or was not detected. It will, of course, be understood that all the houses on the right-hand page were “ defective,” in the sense that their wastes were not severed from the drain, but in those, in the columns headed “ defi,” other defects were discovered by a test or in some other way. On the other hand, it may be said approximately, that of the group on the left hand page only those under the heading “ def.” were discovered as having anything wrong with their drainage. The gain by the new method of grouping is not so much in the new facts introduced to your notice in the present