[Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Stoke-upon-Trent Borough.

  • Stoke-on-Trent (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1902
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Credit: [Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Stoke-upon-Trent Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    district. No further cases occurred. In this case also infection was clearly derived from a previous case in the neighbouring town of Hanley. The patient was employed at a factory in that district, and had come into contact with infected clothing. The present Small-Pox Hospital is a temporary structure (an iron building, with accommodation for 8 patients). Early in the year a case of small-pox having occurred in the Wolstanton Rural District, a meeting of the Medical Officers of Health of the Pottery towns was called at Burslem by the Health Committee of the Burslem Sanitary Authority. A resolution was passed urging the immediate erection of a temporary hospital. This resolution was submitted to the Joint Small Pox Hospital Committee, which had previously acquired a site, and the temporary hospital was erected within a few weeks. The iron buildings have had to be supplemented by tents to deal with the present outbreak of Small Pox in the joint district. A considerable amount of re-vaccination has been done throughout the Borough-