[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Whitby U.D.C.

  • Whitby (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Whitby U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a health and seaside resort, this must be considered a very satisfactory state of things, and will, I think, compare favourably with any other health resort in the kingdom. One case only has been treated in the hospital for infectious diseases, that being a case of scarlatina, which was removed from a cottage in Church Street; no other case occurred in the house. SECTION II. Under the Compulsory Notification of Diseases Act, the following cases of infectious disease have been notified to me. Scarlet fever, 7; erysipelas, 19; diphtheria, 4; croup, 3; typhoid fever, 7 ; paerperal fever, 1. All these Tcases have been inquired into, and wherever sanitary defects have been found in the dwellings, notice has been served on the owners. Two of the typhoid cases were imported, and a second case occurred in one house, probably from infection. Two of the scarlet fever cases were imported, one occurred in a visitor who came from a district where scarlet fever was prevalent, though not from an infected house. Two of the cases of diphtheria occurred in one house; the second case, I believe, arose from infection. There are three common lodging-house in the district, and these are regularly inspected once a month; they are white-washed twice yearly; and your Inspector always finds them in a clean state. No infectious disease has occurred in any of them during the year. The whole of the district is inspected by your Inspector and myself twice yearly, besides which there is a constant supervision in our daily rounds. The slaughter houses and lairs are inspected twice a week by your Inspector, the district is very badly in want of a public slaughter house, the principal one in the district has been ordered by your Board to be closed, it is badly situated being in close proximity to dwelling-houses and the public market. The flooring is bad and broken, causing lodgement of blood, See., and is much too small to be generally useful.