[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds Borough.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Measures * taker. probable that he had received the infection a week before he was vaccinated. The case, however, was a somewhat obscure one. The disease having existed in A street for nearly three weeks before we were on its track, it was thought desirable to make a very careful inspection in streets in the immediate neighbourhood, and of all persons who had been in contact with any of the known cases. In all twenty-four persons more or less exposed to the infection were isolated for periods varying from one to twenty-two days; the A street family having of course remained in quarantine for a fortnight after the date of the baby’s attack. Four thousand and odd visits were made to houses in the neighbourhood, enquiring if any cases of illness had occurred. Any illnesses in which backache, headache, or an eruption figured were reported to me, and I visited all where no medical man was in attendance, and communicated in several cases with the medical attendant where the patient was under treatment. A large number of visits were also made to workshops where persons in contact with members of any infected families had been working. Two other cases were heard of from neighbouring towns, in both of which the patient had been in Leeds. One was that of a student attending the Yorkshire College daily, who was attacked in the town in which he lived. His illness commenced on Monday, the 20th of February, and he was at College on the 22nd. The eruption appeared on the 24th. There is no reason to suppose that he was in contact with any of the persons already named. His work lay in an entirely different part of the town, and it is more likely that he received the infection in the train from some person travelling to or from Middlesbrough in the same carriage. The other case was that of a showman. He visited Leeds amongst several other towns on his way to Lancashire.