Mr W. H. Power's report to the local government board on an outbreak of diphtheria at the village of Bleadon, in the Axbridge rural sanitary district.

  • Power, W. H.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Mr W. H. Power's report to the local government board on an outbreak of diphtheria at the village of Bleadon, in the Axbridge rural sanitary district. 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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    obtained milk (some of them occasionally but most of them regularly) from retailer No. 1. This circumstance seemed at least suspicious and led me to attempt somewhat minute inquiry on the milk question. I found, however, in the lapse of time since the occurrence of the outbreak an insuperable obstacle to my obtaining such exact knowledge of a variety of circumstances as was necessary for the due consideration of the subject, and further inquiry in this direction had to be abandoned. I have to confess, therefore, my inability to assign a cause for the extensive and intense prevalence of diphtheria in this village. Having regard to the apparent absence in Bleadon of relation between insanitary circumstances and the diphtheria, I have not deemed it necessary to do more than refer briefly to the sanitary shortcomings of the place. But I think the attention of the sanitary authority should be directed to such parts of my report as deal with these matters. Especially should attention be given to the want of proper water supply in certain parts of the village; to the risk of dangerous pollution of the parish and other wells ; and to the need that exists for a better and safer method of dealing with excrement. 30th April 1879. W. H. Power. LONDON: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Seottis'wool'i;, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty.” Eor Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. [B 49.-100.-5/79.]