[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Loughborough R.D.C.
- Loughborough (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Loughborough R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![V !To action was taken or v/as necessary under section 117 Public Health Act 1675, There were no carcases or parts of carcases, condemned for .u i ere alosis. thirty SEYTERAC-E AFD DRAIEAGE. At Wyneswold there is a system of sewerar-e put down about years ago, there is a reservoir for flushing at The hiri er end of the village, «.nd a sewage farm with settling tanks for extracting sludge, the effluent is not quite satisfactory, and the Council have made some improvement, during the yc..r, u,na are taking steps to acquire more lu.nd for irrigation and filtration purposes, so as to he able to discharge a satisfactory effluent. IE7HOBS OF DEALING WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASES. The Gompulsary notification Act is in force. By an arrangement with the Loughhordugh Corporation Enteric fever and Diphtheria cases may be isolated at the porough Jsolat ion Hospital. The county council provide isolation Ho spit al. for Small Pox. All other infectious diseases are isolated at their homes. Disinfection is carried out with Sulphur Dioxide a ad Po rmalddhyd e s p ray • METHODS OF COiTTEOL OF TUBERCULOSIS. When the Inpdector or myself hear of a case of consumption the bed-room occupied by the patient is periodically sprayed with Formaldelyde, and when a death occurs, the house is thoroughly disinfected. There is no cat iffcat ion and no hospital accdmodatio l for Cases early or advanced. sly experience of over thirty years practice, among the working classes, leads me to the conclusion, that it is much more important and effectual to spend public money in the isolation of advanced cases of phthisis, from the period when they cease to be able to work cad their death; then to spend such oney in t] e equ. - . d naintainunce of expensive Sanitoria, which in the majority of cases a the disease, The patient is then sent a few ; ths, again breaks down, ana then lingers miserable in a cottage, coughing and spitti ig, and infecting his si ' ' di and his family. Co 'mo re than to temporarily arrest imes his work for EYE LAWS. fp“, -i n ■ *0 District Co unc il hav q never ado pt ed Bye i . Cd » * E> e. mid I till in cl in ed t 0 think that in Cu scat tered R ural D istrict like thi s Dye - - ■ . 0 Uld D end rather to re tard , than prompt .the er set ion of SUitabl^ d-.w'lli ngs fo r workmens fern il ies. 'T p 10 re is one s ia 11 En. .eke r * v E.„rd but no off en sivc trc.de. SCH( DDLS. *• I . O Schoo 1 s of the D istr ict c,re admin ir. cerea by tl- :e E a neat ion Commit tee of the Leices terse. ire County Council, and the E.ouic d.1 ' ;*■» r'i7* — — Inspection of school-children is also arranged for by them, have appointed me Assistant Scholl I led i cal Ofi iccr, to supervise u.na report on the Sanitary Conditions of the seven El erne n tar.; Soho, Is in the District. The general sanitary conditions of the schools is fairly good, hut I have mc.de a number of recommendations to the County Educe A Ox PC ■ s a re suit of rny visits on s uch c- 1 > iw U j ects c..s dampnc Cl c* o J ~ d*» o ;ht r» ventil cf/T• j. o n, etna f r o m wh ich I hope b y 1*1 ext yet. r to rr>. to rt some s . 4- A kv — 61 acto r. y res di.. s. The flo 0 tfS of the 0 nly '.a. shed twi ce a ye ar, I Ci*. .1 of o pin io n 7* ha O a i X ey ou gk t’g hLLy .ashed ana scrub ed o n cc a 10 nth. r„ . i glad of the x* ecent He. mo ra ndu.1 of nc .jO dv rd of n the subj ecs of S Cho01 clo s ure and exclusi 0 n : I TO 1:1 sc -10 cl ar cm i laren. is amo s *j V .a. 1 la* ble ao eume: ilt j 0* nd give s the S- V> a. U i CifCj sor vi cc](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29743710_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
