[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Burnley County Borough.

  • Burnley (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Burnley County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (S origin at soina time l)(‘t\M'eii birth and the age of about 1(S. I'he beginnings of those illnesses that lead to a ]n'ematm(' death resoha* theins('lves into a small nnmb('r : (1) I'nsnitable h'eding leading to I'icka'ts, and defeedive teeth, both with their many conse(|nent disabilities ; (2) Infection, of tnbercnlosis, mt'asles, scaiiet hna-r, ('tc., with tlie endless troubles they lea\a' in their train ; (3) Inheritance' of disease, and (4) Neglect, ('S]X'cially ol young children, which |)a\'c's th(' way loi' many of tlu' dise'ases which are' in late'r life a seiheeus elisability and nltimate'ly le'ad te) a pre'matmx' eh'ath. \Miat is I'ee^nire'd is ])r('yc'ntie)n of elisc'asc' and the' ]n'eventing e)f most e)f tlu'm can only be e'ffc'cted by the)se' in charge' e)f the cliildren. 4'he' guardians of the' child control its feeding, its had)its, and, te) a yery great extent, its exposure to infection. Idle harm caused by impre)])c'r feeding does not, as a rule, n|)ply to children of school age, but ex|)e)sure to infection does especially apply to that |)eriod, and if as much care we're taken in the hontes as in the' schools te) guard against infection tliere we)nlel be' a tremenelons improyement in e)nr general health statistics. One need onl}' re'fer to the dise'ase' of me-ash's, where' indifference on the part e)f many parents leaels to such harmful effects. 1 am, Sir, Ye)nr obeelient >Seryant, Ihd)lic He'cdth department, April, 1921. THOS. MOLT, School Medical Officer.