[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough.

Burton upon Trent (England). County Borough Council.

Date:: 1907

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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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evident that there were a number of cases in connection with the infant department of this school, having an onset about the same date, steps were taken to control the disease. The best means of doing this, is the medical inspection of all the children in the department, and this was done on 3rd September, and seven children with symptoms more or less suspicious were excluded. This stopped the disease tem- porarily but cases cropped up at intervals until 22nd November, the date of the last case notified. The children were inspected on 11th November and three children excluded, and again on 29th November when four more were excluded. The teacher in charge was also of great assistance and kept a sharp look- out for any suspicious case. At least three of the children excluded were almost certainly suffering from Scarlet Fever in a very modified form. The school was disinfected on 18th October and on November 15th, and the Girls’ school where there were also a few cases, on 2nd October. A letter with suggestions from the Medical Officer of Health re treatment of closets and some school apparatus was sent to the Education Committee on 11th November. These were immediately carried out. The number of cases removed to Hospital was 117 or 83 per cent, of the total, as compared with 86’6 per cent, last year. Seven of the cases were fatal, five of these belonging to the Horninglow Ward, where the disease assumed a severe character in many cases.