[Report 1882] / Medical Officer of Health, Gloucester City & Port.

  • Gloucester (England). City and Port Council.
Date:
1882
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Credit: [Report 1882] / Medical Officer of Health, Gloucester City & Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    water from wells free from sewage contamination. The water supplied in one part of the City, by private wrorks has frequently been very impure. Sanitary State of the District.—In the month of September, 1881, I reported to the Local Q-overnment Board that an epidemic of Scarlet Fever had appeared in Gloucester. I regret to state that the disease existed in many parts of the district with various degrees of prevalence throughout 1882, as the following table for the different months will show :— Cases of Scarlet Fever reported Deaths from by the Medical Scarlet Fever Officers of the Registered Union. in the City. January 7 1 February 10 0 March 5 5 April 13 4 May 3 13 June 17 17 July 18 15 August 81 16 September 58 18 October 48 36 November 62 32 December 22 21 344 178 It will be seen that in addition to the deaths occurring from this disease in each month, I haye given the number of cases reported by the Medical Officers of the Union. But these reports do not by any means afford data by which an opinion can be formed as to the number of cases which haye occurred in the district. This is the most lasting as well as the most fatal epidemic which I have ever known. It has given me very great anxiety, and I have done all that I could, with the assistance of the Inspector, to check the spread of the disease. Other forms of Zymotic disease have been less numerous than during many other years. As will be seen by reference to the tables appended to this report, there have been three fatal cases