[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Maldon Borough.

  • Maldon (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Maldon Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    House Refuse is removed by the public scavengers. Sanitary dustbins which are emptied weekly, are being largely adopted. Nuisances. No legal proceedings were found necessary, but 41 notices were served and in 69 cases nuisances were abated. Schools. There are four Public Elementary Schools in the Borough. As accommodation is insufficient another is about to be built by the County Council. The existing buildings are satisfactory on the whole. The nuisance arising from privies at the St. Mary’s Infant School, to which attention has been drawn in my last two reports, remains unabated in the girls department. The Medical inspection of the school children is carried out by the County Medical Inspectors. Notifiable Infectious Diseases.—The number of cases of infectious disease notified during the year, exclusive of Phthisis has been 28. This compares favourably with the average for the preceding ten years, which was 60. They con¬ sisted of Diphtheria ... 3 Scarlet Fever ... 10 Enteric Fever ... 8 Erysipelas ... 6 Puerperal Fever ... 1 Three of the cases of Scarlet Fever occurred in one house, but otherwise none of these diseases assumed epidemic form. In three of the cases of Enteric Fever there was a history pointing to the eating of shellfish as a possible cause of the illness.