[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Newton-in-Makerfield U.D.C.
- Newton-le-Willows (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Newton-in-Makerfield U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Scarlatina.—Tlie very al)nor]iial numljer of 175 (one IuukIixmI and seventy-five) cases were notified, with four deaths in Newton, and two of cases removed to the Isolation Hospital at Warrington. Sixty-two children under five years of age, and one hundred and thirteen j^atients of five years of age and upwards made the tale of the cases notified of this disease. It was with us throughout tlio year; not a single month passed in freedom from it. It was most ])revalent in the third and fourth quarters of the year. In the first (|uarter there were 18 cases, in the second quarter 30 cases, in the third quarter 56 cases, and in the last quarter 71 cases. The distribution of the disease is tabulated below, along with the other cases of infectious disease notified to the Authoritv. To the mildness of type of the invasion is attributable, chiefly, the comparatively small mortality attending it. I cannot resist the conviction that if Isolation had been more widely resorted to in January and February (in the two months there were only seven cases notified), the epidemic would not have become so extensive ; but on the subject of Isolation I shall speak again in my general comment at the end of this section of my Report. The mildness of the disease favoured, to a certain extent, its diffusion. I suspect that many cases were overlooked—and not from wilful negligence ; that manv cases were not submitted to medical observation and %/ advice during their course; and in not a few a familiarity, kindred to that which breeds contempt, engendered carelessness. Twenty-eight children under five years of age, and fifty-four other persons, were removed to the Isolation Hospital. Diphtheria.—Seventeen cases were notified, and five Deaths certified. None was removed to hospital. Enteric, or, Typhoid Fever.—Thirty cases were notified, and six deaths in Newton certified. Six of the cases were sent to the Hospital—and none died] a truly convincing object-lesson of the supreme importance of nursing and feeding in this disease. Continued Fever.—Three cases—not one fatal. Puerperal Fever.—Two fatal cases. Erysipelas. --Fourteen cases—two fatal.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29910031_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
