[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheshunt U.D.C.

  • Cheshunt (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheshunt U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pantile Hall was found damp and four other houses were found to require damp-courses which have been inserted. The water supply for Pantile Hall and Pantile Cottages is from a well near the latter, and the water supply tor some of the houses in St. James’s Road is from a well which the Council in vain attempted to close some years ago. Both these wells are rather unhappily situated with regard to possible contami- nation. Two houses in Goffs Lane were reported' to be unfit for human habitation and are now not occupied. THE PREVENTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Under the fig section of the Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act, 1909, I am required to give to the Medical Officer of Health for the County any information which it is in my power to give and which he may reasonably require, &c., &c. This year he has asked for “an exact account of the “provisions made in your district for dealing with infectious “ disease, with regard to the number of beds and sufficiency of “ provision of Isolation Hospital accommodation, the existence “ and adequacy of a steam disinfector and other methods of “ disinfection and the arrangements made for the provision of “ antitoxin and for bacterial examination.” Also I am requested to refer to his Annual Report for 1908 and give the information required under the several headings. Under the Act I am liable to certain fines on failure to do this. ISOLATION HOSPITAL. The Council now, in my opinion, possesses sufficient isolation accommodation for Diph- theria and Scarlet Fever. The Diphtheria Block is new and substantially built with beds for twelve adult patients. As most of the patients are children, many almost babies, more beds can be placed in the wards and as the use of a hospital is really to prevent an epidemic, not to treat the victims of an epidemic, there is as much room as is required.