[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Cannock U.D.C.

  • Cannock (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Cannock U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dui-inw' tlio past year 1 hsi ve i-eported to you on ^ 1 '* c ^ c L' 1* ij^i •* UniiurtKC* several cases ot detective dramajre and the nuisances re- sulting from insanitary ashjiits and middens. Ill two ca.ses of typhoid fever, and one of diplitheria, I found defective drainage conditions, wliicli were remedied. I have regularly visited the Sewage Farm during the Snwnjre^FHnn, past year, taking on each occasion samples of theethuents, which, on examination, Iiave shown on an average a satis- factory improvement. It is ])leasing to record also that the sewerage of Heath Hayes has been completed, and that the sewerage of the other undrained jiortioiis of the district will be in course of completion this year. !Mr. J. T. Spooner, the Vaccination Officer, has kindly primary supplied me ivith a I’eturn, in which the births ai-e stated as 850, the number successfully vaccinated 418, dead unvaccinated 98, unsuccessfully vaccinated I, and post- poned vaccinations nil. He also states that the number of children whose parents have obtained exemption certificates amounts to 18, and that the number of children whose ])arents have left the district amounts to 4. The number of children unvaccinated amounts to 821, but the Vaccination Officer states his belief that nearly the whole of this number will be successfully vaccinated during the next d months, as the nnmber of childi-cn vaccinated has increased very rapidly since the new Vaccination Act has come fully into o])eration. i\lr. W. Hlackshaw, the Surveyor, kindly informs me Aaiiiiinnai that the number of new buildings erected during the past yeai' amounts to llt>, thus makiiig the total nund)er of houses in the district for the \e.ir 1898 to anmunt to 4,258. 1 a])pend the Tables required by the Local Govcim- ment Hoard and the County Council, and beg to remain, gentlemen. Your obedient servant, J. NOHTHKY PHILLIPS. The Poplars, llednesfovil, February 23rd, 1899.