The Attorney-General and others -v- The Mayor, aldermen & citizens of the city of Nottingham. Minutes of evidence (February 10 - February 15, 1904).

Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Chancery Division.

Date:: [1904?]

Credit: The Attorney-General and others -v- The Mayor, aldermen & citizens of the city of Nottingham. Minutes of evidence (February 10 - February 15, 1904). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$1113 '2220. In a certain number of cases the source of infection could February ] 3,1904 not be traced. Dr. Jones was the medical officer of health, was not he ?—Yes. Dr. H. J. Neilson 2221. He came to the conclusion that in a certain number of .V cases the hospital was the source of infection ?—No, I have never heard him express such an opinion, but I have head him express one to the contrary. 2222. How long did that outbreak last. You told my friend there were 61 cases—how long did it last ?—It lasted from the 20th B of February. 2223. Say from February to June ?—Yes, the last case admitted was on the 30tli of June. 2224. That would be about five months. So that you would not have so many as 20 in at a time ?—Yes, we had 25 in at one time. i^] 2225. Then the rest of the time you must have had a good many under 20 ?—Yes, but not very often until it was dying out were they under 20. 2226. Now tlien the Basford Hospital, is that the one we heard about from Dr. Wray ?—It is. \) 2227. There were six cases there which occurred 15 days after the hospital had been overcrowded with acute cases ; perhaps you do not know that ?—I do know. I am the only one who does know, because I had charge of them. 2228. You had charge of this hospital ?— I had charge of that K hospital. 2229. Now I put it to you, these cases were notified on the 7th of July ?—Y^es. 2230. Now then, 15 days before that time, that is to say, begin- ning about the 17th of June, there were a number of admissions to Y the hospital ?—Yes. 2231. And those turned out rather bad cases, did not they?— No, one or two of them were bad cases. 2232. Then all the rest in this outbreak treated at that hospital were mild cases ?—Not all the rest, there was the usual proportion. (I There were acute cases and mild cases ; but at no time could the hospital be said to have been overcrowded by acute cases. 2233. Y^ou did your best to trace the six cases to it?—Y^es. 2234. Tell me how you set to work in one ?—Take the case of Mary Ann Jackson, Park Lane—that was one that was attributed. H 2235. Take the most doubtful one ?—There ai e none of them doubtful in my opinion ; they are all clearly traceable. 2236. Then take Mary Ann ?—John Jackson worked at the Broxtowe pit. with Peter Dudley, a patient of mine. He had$