[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham (England). City Council.
Date:
1897
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    intended for their own, or other unaffected person’s use. Any case suspected to be one of Cholera should be at once notified to me at the Health Department in the Guildhall. Diarrhoea mixture may be obtained without payment, by poor persons, at the Police Stations of the Borough, or in the Health Department of the Guildhall. PHILIP BOOBBYER, Guildhall, Nottingham. Medical Officer of Health. City of Nottingham. Prevention of Tubercular Consumption. This disease is infectious, and liable to spread among persons living in contact with those suffering from it. Where the lungs are principally affected, the spit of the patients contains most of the poison. This should be received into a vessel containing a strong solution of Carbolic Acid (1 of Carbolic to 20 of Water), and all washing materials and utensils soiled by the patients should be soaked in the same solution before being washed. Consumptive patients should always sleep alone. The rooms of consumptive patients should be aired every day, and disinfected and cleaned at least once a month. In case of the death or removal of any consumptive patient, the Health Department will undertake the disinfection of the infected house and materials. PHILIP BOOBBYER, Guildhall, Nottingham. Medical Officer of Health. Nottingham Corporation. Bagthorpe Hospital. Scarlet Fever. To Parents, Guardians, and others. Although every care is exercised to prevent the carriage of infection by persons discharged from Bagthorpe Hospital, it is impossible in some instances to insure against such an accident, for no one can say with certainty how long scarlet fever may lurk in the system. Parents and others are warned against allowing recently discharged patients to come into unnecessarily intimate contact with others. No person discharged from a Fever Hospital should be allowed to sleep in the same bed as another until at least a fortnight after discharge. A short holiday in the country, with plenty of fresh air, apart from others, is always desirable after convalescence from scarlet fever. But all persons recovering from scarlet fever should be warmly clothed, and otherwise protected against cold. Any recently discharged person who complains of sore throat, nose, or ears, or who has a breaking out on the skin, should be at once isolated, and placed under the care of a medical man. In any case the Corporation cannot accept responsibility or liability for the outbreak of infection occurring among the companions of persons recently discharged from hospital. PHILIP BOOBBYER, M.B., Medical Superintendent.