Mr. W.H. Power's report to the Local Government Board on diphtheria in Pirbright, and on the influence of the school there in the behaviour of the disease / [W.H. Power].

  • Power, William Henry, Sir, 1842-1916.
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[1883]
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Credit: Mr. W.H. Power's report to the Local Government Board on diphtheria in Pirbright, and on the influence of the school there in the behaviour of the disease / [W.H. Power]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    further, we got a suspicion, though the instances were too few to justify any conclusion thereon, that, given the occurrence about the same time of two or more cases of trivial sore throat among children of a large family, such occurrence was likely to be quickly followed by severe diphtheria attack in one or more children of that family. This suspicion may like enough be hereafter proved invalid; it is only noteworthy as having arisen before the facts as to the behaviour of diphtheria in that larger family, Pirbright School, had been got together and formulated. Finally, it is proper that this report should not close without acknowledgement of the valuable assistance afforded me in the inquiry. To Mr. Smith, who worked with me day by day in Pirbright; to Mr. Halsey, Chairman of the Guildford Rural Sanitary Authority; to Mr. Rees, Inspector of Nuisances; to Mr. Hill, the schoolmaster of Pirbright; and to Mr. Sells and Dr. Russell, medical practitioners in the district, not a little of that which tends to make the report exact, is due. (Signed) W. H. POWER. 31 January 1883. [While this report is passing through the press, information reaches the Board of recrudescence, several weeks subsequent to resumption (in January) of school operations, of diphtheria among Pirbright school children. Mr. Smith in reporting, on 29th March, this further outbreak, speaks of two houses invaded by the disease with three deaths.] \ < * •' t / . LONDON) Printed by George E. B. Eyre and William SjpottiswoodEj Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. [3843.—100.—5/83.]