[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough.

  • Doncaster (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1895
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Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cases of Measles. Cases of Searlet Fever. The following table gives the numbers coming to our knowledge during each month of the year. 1 8 9 5. Month. Small Pox. Scarlet Fever. Diphtheria. Membranous Croup Enteric Fever. Continued Fever. Puerperal Fever. Cholera. Erysipelas Total for Month. January • 5 4 1 ... 5 15 February .. 9 • • 1 1 5 16 March 4 1 . . 4 9 April 2 6 . . 2 10 May 5 1 2 1 9 June 10 2 • • 4 16 July 28 • • 2 2 32 August 71 3 8 2 84 September.. 48 5 . • 9 1 2 65 October 60 5 • • 10 6 81 November .. 56 1 1 2 8 68 December .. 65 2 2 1 3 73 Total of cases. • • 363 30 3 36 • • 1 1 44 478 During the first quarter of the year the outbreak of measles occurred. From the returns made of the fatal cases the disease prevailed in each ward with the exception of the East. So many of the children attending Wellington Street Infant School were ill with measles that it was found necessary to close it for a month. The attendance at St. Peter’s School was also greatly lessened. Our efforts to induce the mothers to separate the children attacked were not very successful ; there is too much stress laid upon the fact that the disease is only measles and yet the 22 deaths caused by that disease exceeded the whole number due to every other form of infectious disease. Among the 363 cases of scarlet fever there were 10 deaths, which is just under 3 per cent, of the persons attacked. Among children under 5 years of age ill, the death-rate was