[Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Altrincham U.D.C.

  • Altrincham (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1911
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Credit: [Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Altrincham U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    found an unreported case of Typhoid in the third week of the disease, case removed at once and house dis- infected, there had been no medical attendance upon this case. Further enquiries revealed that this was the fourth case of illness (almost certainly Typhoid) in this house, extending back to a date anterior to the first cases of the present epidemic, and that the mother, a charwoman, had been working at the first house from which I received a notification. Upon the various facts I discovered with regard to these cases, and their con- nection with others of the persons affected, I have no doubt that this was the source of infection. It was possible to trace all the subsequent cases to infection from patient to patient. Sanitary Conditions.—The sanitary conditions varied considerably. Of the 18 houses affected, 6 had waterclosets and ashbins ; 12 had double privy ashpits, 3 were in bad condition, 2 were the old brick ashpits, and 7 were the best of their kind, shallow and cemented. The drains with one exception were all in perfect order, trapped with modern gullies and quite free. The con- dition of the houses themselves as to cleanliness and good housekeeping was : very good, 7 ; fair to good, 6 ; dirty, 5. There was no overcrowding. The measures taken to deal with the outbreak on the first notification were : Sewers and drains flooded with disinfectant, all ashpits in the area emptied and