[Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, New Windsor Borough.

  • Windsor (Berkshire, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1906
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Credit: [Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, New Windsor Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It does not seem probable, therefore, that the provision of an isolation hospital would have done much towards checking the dissemination of the infection, but there is no doubt that for this disease hospital treatment is much to be desired. I do not think that a hospital situated at a distance of three miles from the doctor’s residence would be satisfactory for the purpose. Why should not a separate block in connection with the projected King Edward VII. Hospital be provided for the reception of diphtheria patients ? I am sure that there is no well-grounded objection to the suggestion. Early in the year the Health Committee, at my request, sanctioned the free supply of antitoxin, to be used for protective purposes, and the result of this experiment was very encouraging, for not one of the twenty-five children who were treated with the serum «/ afterwards caught the disease, while among others, not so treated, secondary infection was not infrequent. Whooping Cough was prevalent among the children at the Spital and Alexandra Road Infant Schools in the early months of the vear, and an outbreak of Measles occurred in the latter school in September and October. Zymotic Diarrhoea caused 6 deaths, a number somewhat below the average. The Meteorological conditions were such as might have been expected to favour the disease. Pulmonary Consumption caused only 13 deaths. The mortality from this disease during the last four years has been at the rate of 1 per 1,000 persons, which is just half of the average rate in the decade 1881—90, and we may be encouraged to hope that when improved sanitary conditions and more generally diffused knowledge have bad time to work their full effects this disease will lose much of its terrors. I have made the usual systematic inspections of the district, and have received from the Sanitary Inspector weekly reports of the nuisances and other sanitary defects which he had discovered. Reports of defects on 158 premises were so Whooping Cough. Measles. Diarrhoea. Phthisis. Inspections.