[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Lowestoft Borough and Port.

  • Lowestoft (England). Borough & Port Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Lowestoft Borough and Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Zymotic Enteritis. Eight deaths were registered, being ten less than last year. The temperature registered by the four feet earth thermometer reached 56° Fah. on 19th June, and fell to below 56° Fall, on 6th October. It is another satisfactory feature of this report that, considering the summer was hot and dry, which weather is favourable to the spread of this disease, the number of deaths is less than the previous 12 months, notwithstanding that the summer of 1904 was unfavourable to the spread of the disease. Anthrax. At a Meeting of the Sanitary Committee, held in June, the Town Clerk reported that an Inspector of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries had called on him suggesting that the Council should apply for a license to cremate at the Destructor the carcases of animals dying from contagious diseases, and it was resolved that the Committee does not see its way to make the suggested application. Circular to Local Authorities in Great Britain under the Diseases of Animals Acts, 1894 to 1S08. Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 4, Whitehall Place, London, S.W., 18tli April, 1905. Anthrax. Cremation of Carcases. Sir, I am directed by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to -advert to their Circular letter Ahh- dated the 5th June, 1908, and again to call the special attention of your Local Authority to the