Report on an outbreak of scarlet fever during the summer of 1888, in a dairy custom / [Henry E. Armstrong].

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England). City and county.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Report on an outbreak of scarlet fever during the summer of 1888, in a dairy custom / [Henry E. Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    Ifi sanitary condition of dairies situated outside of the city, but supplying milk to the citizens, should be in some degree under civic control. At least the citizens should have some guarantee of security, e.g., against the risk of contamination or infection of the milk at all times. Dairy- workers should be compelled to report to their employers all infectious and suspicious ailments in their households; and dairymen should be compelled to take proper precautions. Rut how can they, without special education in such matters, be expected to appreciate the many delicate points relating to contagium and its communicability, which are but imperfectly grasped even by scientific experts ? They should therefore be made aware of the great hygienic importance of every detail of their business. For my own part, the experience of the recent outbreak has taught me to be more suspicious than before of what appear to be trivial ailments in persons connected with dairies. In a report on an outbreak of Scarlet Fever at the beginning of the present year, I stated that one of the house- hold servants at the dairy, but who was understood not to be in any way engaged in the dairy business, had Tonsillitis, which I fully believed to be non-specific. Were that case to decide now, I doubt whether I should express the same opinion. Under any circumstances I should advise her removal from the dairy premises. I haA'e to express my belief that Mr. Dodgson is not in any way to blame in this matter.,- To the best of my knowledge he has been straight- forwai'd '^ijUd open throughout. He at once discontinued the supply of the milk when advise^-to do so, and did not begin it again until autho- My acknowledgments are due to the dilferent medical practitioners concerned for the valuable aid they have courteously rendered iu the inquiry. vised. HENRY E. ARMSTRONG. Medical Officer of Health. Health Department, Town Mall, 16th July, 1888. NEWCASTLE-TJPON-TYNE : ANDHEW EEID, rillNTING COXiliT liriLUIKGS.
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