[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Garstang (Union) R.D.C.

  • Garstang (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Garstang (Union) R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been sent to Sanatoria from your District, but none by the Board of Guardians. You have an admirable site for a few Chalets on your hospital field which need not interfere with the general future use of your Infectious Hospital. In several cases I have advised what may be called “ The home treatment of consumption,” the erection of a wooden building outside the house on a suitable situation. Many object to Sanitorium treatment but will willingly carry out in a simple way a Sanitorium at Home, and following at the same time an open air agricultural life. If a complete system of notification of this disease took place in your District with veterinary inspection of cattle, and definite steps taken, the Tubercle Bacillus would not find scarcely an abiding place after some years of treatment and definite action by Public Health and Agricultural Authorities. By an order which was intended to comes into operation on January 1st 1910, far reaching provisions exist for dealing with tuberculosis in animals, and a scale of compensation to owner was provided. This order I am sorry to say has been withdrawn. Every attempt should be made to rid the country of the animals which are dangerously affected with Tuberculosis. This lessens the risk to other animals as well as man, and lessens the risks of infected milk. The present traffic in Tuberculous beasts is much to be depre- cated, the way these animals are driven along public thoroughfares, and carted in vehicles, is a prominent feature in your District. One case came under my notice during the past year, where a Tuberculous beast became so exhausted on the Public Highway that it could not proceed and the driver, with some difficulty, got the animal to the nearest farm, tied it up in a byre, to rest and shelter where a number of other beasts were housed, with what result it is difficult to say ! The danger of such an act is apparent. Cattle with advanced Tuberculosis should not be allowed on a Public Highway, especially in the summer time, most of these animals have diarrhoea, and in the excrement large numbers of Bacilli are present, and the latter are blown about in the air, after the excrement has become dry, and become alike a danger to the human subject as well as other animals. Administration of the Midwives Act. Two registered mid wives exist within your District, and both have done good work.