[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley (Union) R.D.C.

  • Barnsley (England : Unitary authority). Rural District Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnsley (Union) R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    such as the amount of bedroom accommodation, the number of occupants of the house, if there were any lodgers, or any nuisances about the premises likely to be injurious to health, also the source whence drinking water and milk were obtained, and the schools to which any children in the house were sent. Steps were taken for the removal of any conditions injurious to health. In the case of Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, and Smallpox, the schools were warned against receiving any children from the houses during the period when infection was likely to be conveyed, and where proper isolation seemed not likely to be carried out, removal to the Kendray Hospital was suggested, and insisted on in the case of Smallpox. There were 15 cases of Smallpox all in the first four months of the year, when the disease was very prevalent throughout South Yorkshire. Of these, Woolley, Cudworth, and Royston had 1 each, which were well marked cases, detected and reported before they had been long ill, the patients at once removed, the other inmates of the houses re-vaccinated, and the houses disinfected, and in none of these Townships did the disease spread. These were evidently imported cases, though the source was not always quite certain. The patient at Royston lived in a house which was used as a poor-law relief station, and was visited by persons living in another Sauitary District in which Smallpox was known to have existed ; whilst at Cudworth a woman went to visit her uncle near Mansfield, who was ill with Smallpox, and fourteen days after fell ill with the same disease. Her baby, born after she had been ill five days, was at once vaccinated successfully and removed the same day with its mother to the Hospital, but unfortunately had been already infected with Smallpox, which the vaccination came too late to modify sufficiently. The mother, who had four infantile vaccination marks, had the disease in a milder form and recovered, whilst the baby died,