Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896.

  • Holborn (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 death-rate which was 12.2 per 1,000; the corresponding rates for London being only 18.2 and 1.68 respectively. The final Report of the Royal Commission on Vaccination was published the latter part of the year. I give a short abstract of this most important Report. It is to be hoped that this will give a stimulus to increased vaccination and re-vaccination. I also give an abstract of the results of an inquiry by the Local Government Board concerning the Oyster Culture of Great Britain and its relation to disease. Another Royal Commission on Tuberculosis is now sitting It has to report principally upon what practical means can be taken to secure the extermination of tuberculosis from our meat and milk supplies. The Board may be glad to know that Mr. Billing and I had the honour of giving evidence before this Commission. The Metropolitan Asylums Board has again been unable to receive all the cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria that required to be removed to their hospitals, notwithstanding the continued efforts of the Managers to keep pace with the growing demands of the Metropolis. Additional duties have recently been imposed upon the Managers by the Local Government Board for the amelioration of the infectious sick and insane poor children of the Metropolis. These duties consist of providing for the care of children:— (a.) Suffering from opthalmia or other contagious disease of the eye. (b.) Suffering from contagious disease of the skin or scalp. (c.) Requiring either special treatment during convalescence or the benefit of sea-side air. (d.) Who by reason of defect of intellect or physical infirmity cannot properly be trained in association with children in ordinary schools; and (e.) Who are ordered by two justices or a magistrate to be taken under the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, to a workhouse or an asylum of the district.