[Report 1887] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford.

  • Herefordshire Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities.
Date:
1887
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Credit: [Report 1887] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    miMUrw, was severe in the It liaving been .-eported to me, and, npon personal “‘jS^raiw all, I do not hesitate to state impnro water ‘ “ P'^ cause, and the sleeping together of members of a family. Croup caused two cases. ir/mopiiiy Cmah showed in nineteen eases m your three districts. „ Enteric or Doubtful Fevers, as I have before mentioned Table A, was the cause of a case. Diarrhoea and Dysentery were set down as being t e cause o 35 cases, . . nf Rheumatic Fever was returned as causing six cas , which were of a very mild type. Erysipelas also produced three cases to way attributable to insanitatioii about then hous . Having furnished you with the cause of all deaths and sickness it only remains for me to mention Tki Milk Skops. and also the Margarine Act, and when necessaiy i The work done by the Inspector of Nuisances, Mi J. T. Stephens, for the year 1887, is as follov s . ^ Wells cleaned and repaired ... ^ Privies, Co.sspools, ditto ^ Houses limewashed ^ Drains cleaned, &c.... ••• *“ ^ y Privies new and repaired ••• Overcrowding ••• — Thanking your Board, I am. Gentlemen, yours obediently. H. VAVASOUR SANDFORD,