Dr. Ballard's report to the local goverment board upon an epidemic of enteric fever in the village of Millbrook, in the rural sanitary district of St. German's, Cornwall.
- Ballard, Edward
- Date:
- 1881
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dr. Ballard's report to the local goverment board upon an epidemic of enteric fever in the village of Millbrook, in the rural sanitary district of St. German's, Cornwall. 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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![[In carrying out the above recommendations, the Authority may usefully take as their guide Mr. Rawlinson’s “ Suggestions as to Main Sewering and Drainage and as to Water Supply.”] 7. Foul and offensive privies should be dealt with in such a manner as not only to cause the abatement of existing nuisance, but so as to prevent the recurrence of nuisance. 8. In future the Sanitary Authority should see that their Medical Officer of Health strictly carries out the instructions and directions pertaining to his office which are contained in the Board’s Order of March 12, 1880, relating to the duties of a Medical Officer of Health. 9. The Sanitary Authority should at once make, under section 131 of the Public Health Act, proper provision for the isolation of persons sick with infectious diseases, by the adoption of one of the arrangements specified in that section. And in respect of the isolation of the sick, and in respect generally of the arrest oi infectious disease, they should actively use the powers vested in them by sections 120 to 129 of the above Act.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24996907_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
