Mr W. H. Power's report to the local government board on scarlatina prevalence in the Easington rural sanitary district ; and on means for isolation of infectious diseases available for use by the rural sanitary authority.

  • Power, W. H.
Date:
1879
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Credit: Mr W. H. Power's report to the local government board on scarlatina prevalence in the Easington rural sanitary district ; and on means for isolation of infectious diseases available for use by the rural sanitary authority. 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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    the district, would afford a much more accessible site. If a series of small hospitals be adopted, the position and size of each will require separate consideration with reference to the area and population it is intended to serve. (b.) Disinfection.—In connexion with the question of hospital provision, or, if necessary, separately therefrom, consideration should be given to the need that exists for apparatus for disinfecting by dry heat, clothing, bedding, &c., of all persons suffering in the district from infectious disease. Steps, too, should be taken for securing in regard of each household attacked the use of such apparatus, and toward proper disinfection by fumigation and otherwise, under medical direction, of each dwelling that has been invaded. LONDON: Printed by Geobge E. Eybe and William Spottiswoode, Printers to the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty. For Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. [9984.—100.—12/79.]