[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton].

  • Surbiton (Surrey, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1897]
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    8 nurse had become infected while dressing the wound. The patient died; and it was stated later on that prior to attending this case, the nurse had been in attendance on a case of diphtheria; but an interval of fully a month had elapsed, and thorough disinfection] had been practised. The drainage was not found in fault. The following table records some facts in connection with the diphtheria cases of this and former years. Houses invaded. Cases. Deaths. Average Age per case. Case mortality per cent. 1890 31 36* 3 19.5 8.3 1891 16 21 10 9.8 47.6 1892 14 16 1 18.1 6.2 1893 19 23 3 18.7 13.0 1894 13 20 3 17.3 15.0 1895 12 12 1 13.5 8.3 †1896 8 9 2 14.4 22.2 *27 of these cases were due to an infected milk supply, †The combined districts. Erysipelas. 10 cases, one of which was removed to the Isolation Hospital, and proved severe and tedious. No deaths. Epidemic Influenza. This disease is now a species of annual, recurring year by year, much about the same time; for referring to my notes I find it reappeared almost suddenly on the 18th February, 1895, and now I have to report that last year, 1896, it was again very prevalent in February, exhausting itself in the course of a few weeks, to appear again in October, though not so severely. At the time of writing it is once more in evidence. No deaths are attributed to it. Scarlet Fever. A total of 19 cases and one death. The majority of these were notified in the first quarter of the year, and of the remainder three or four were in the summer, and three