[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Carlisle City.

Carlisle (England). City Council.

Date:: 1895

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Carlisle City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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MEASLES. There have been five deaths from Measles as compared with 20 deaths last year. The mortality from the disease during the last 20 years has been as follows 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 J891 1892 1893 1894 1895 5 12 2 22 4 0 36 11 0 22 4 16 3 44 1 22 3 77 20 5 SMALL POX. One case of Small Pox occurred during the year. It was the case of a woman with the confluent form of the disease, who was removed from Linton Street to Crozier Lodge Hospital on March 10th. The origin of the case was at first obscure inasmuch as the patient had not been from home for many months, and there had been no notified case of Small Pox in Carlisle since the spring of the previous year. It was subsequently discovered, however, that the husband of the patient, a railway man going between Carlisle and Glasgow where Small Pox at that time prevailed, had been confined to the house owing to illness, about nine days previous to the commencement of his wife’s seizure, and an examination revealed three recent Small Pox scars upon his forehead. The man was put in quarantine for a sufficient period and there was no further spread. This case exemplifies what a mild disease Small Pox may be and how easily it may be overlooked.