[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, East Stow R.D.C.

  • East Stow (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, East Stow R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Visits of Inspection. Factory Act. Water Supply. Infectious Diseases. There were 25 notifications of Infectious Diseases during the year, compared with 30 last year, and 37 the year before. The cases were as follows :— Diphtheria 9, compared with 8 last year. Erysipelas 6, compared with 6 last year. Scarlet Fever 10, compared with 11 last year. There were no cases of Enteric Fever notified, either in this District, or in Stowmarket or Thedwastre. The cases of Diphtheria occurred at Combs, Stowupland, Buxhall, Wetherden, and Onehouse. The cases of Erysipelas occured at Combs, Wetherden, Old Newton, and Finborough. The cases of Scarlet Fever occurred at Combs, Stowupland, and Buxhall. There were 2 Deaths from Diphtheria. The notifications Were the fewest received in any year since 1895, when the Infectious Diseases (notification) Act came into force in this district. Special Visits of Inspection were made to all the Villages in the District during the year, altogether 110 visits were made. Details of these visits will be found under the head of each Village. There are 10 Factories and 2 Workshops on the Register, all of which have been visited by tho Inspector during the year. No written notices have been served, and no defects reported. The soil of this District is chiefly mixed loam and clay and the sub-soil heavy clay, except at Haughley and Wetherden where it is mostly gravel. Buxhall, Finborough, Gipping, Harleston, Onehouse, Shelland and Wetherden obtain their water for domestic purposes from shallow wells or ponds, moro or less polluted. Haughley obtains its water from a fairly good well in the street, and from ponds (more or less polluted). Combs from unsafe ponds, shallow wells and 3 ponds made and kept up by the Council. Old Newton from one deep well in chalk, drainage from fields, polluted ponds and four ponds made and kept up by the Council. Creeting chiefly from a deep well in chalk, pumped up by windmill and passed through settling tanks. Stowupland from a few shallow wells, and four ponds made by the Council and the lower part of the Village from the Stowmarket Water Works. The following details have reference to the various Villages in the District, the numbers in the brackets to the population at the last census, and the area in acres, BUXHALL (Population 402; Area 2523). There were 13 Births, compared with 8 last year. There were 7 Deaths, compared with one last year; one of the Deaths was of an infant under one year of age, and 4 were of persons over 70. Six cases of Scarlet Fever were notified, all occurring in one family; and one case of Diphtheria. This Village was visited officially on six occasions, and the following sanitary defects reported:— The cesspool to cottage (case of Diphtheria) was found to be out of repair, and owner served with usual notice. The drains to 2 cottages were found to be blocked ; the owner was served with the usual notice and the nuisance abated. In October, complaints were received as to the condition of the water in the Council’s ponds; duo to the dry season.