[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Stratford-upon-Avon Borough, Stratford-upon-Avon R.D.C., Marston Sicca R.D.C.

  • Stratford-upon-Avon (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Stratford-upon-Avon Borough, Stratford-upon-Avon R.D.C., Marston Sicca R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    time of year, it is least advisable that any change should be brought about in the water supply of the public, either by pumping well-water into the mains, or by private wells being brought into use to supplement a limited public water service. VACCINATION. Vaccination, as shown in the Returns appended to this Report, is efficiently carried out in the Borough, a state of affairs which, it is to be hoped, will not be adversely affected by recent legislation. When one considers how infectious the disease, Small-pox, is, and how liable an infected person is to spread the disease to others before the nature of the illness is known, it is very clear that to attempt to stamp out Small-pox by trusting to isolation of cases alone, may not be successful. In fact, to arrest the spread of Small¬ pox among an unvaccinated population would be, to my mind, as difficult as it is to prevent the spread of Measles: and how the latter complaint runs riot occasionally is well known. The two diseases—Small-pox and Measles—have more than one point of similarity in that they are both children’s diseases, and have both a stage of invasion of several days before the distinctive rash shows. Lastly, they are readily transmitted by infection, and in neither case are healthy surroundings a pi’eventive. SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE. During the past year I have gone into the question of dealing with the sewage of Shottery with your Surveyor, and it is probable that some form of ‘ Tank ’ Treatment is the only proper solution of the matter. As there are continual experiments going on in this method of sewage disposal, it is to be hoped that very soon some' perfected system will obtain the unqualified approval of experts in sewage treatment. When this is arrived at, places like Shottery can readily be dealt with. /