[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Wombwell Local Board / U.D.C.

  • Wombwell (England). Local Board of Health.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Wombwell Local Board / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in sanitary science and legislation, which render a revision necessary. OVERCROWDING has been attended to in 3 instances. One of these was in Rabbit Row. These houses (4 in number) are badly fitted for human habitation because of their proximity to the “Coke Ovens &c.” I wish the owners could see their way to put them to some other use. ENTERIC FEVER. Of the 17 cases recorded, 5 occur- ing in 3 houses, in entirely different parts of the distrtct, and at different seasons of the year, are not attributable to any definite cause as careful investigation excluded any local reason. The remaining 12 are intimately associated with filth. A year ago I commented on this. More or less each case was connected with uncleanly personal habits, and general domestic uncleanliness. In some places the sanitary arrange¬ ments were bad, but they were rendered much worse, by the carelessness of the tenants in allowing drains to be choked, and back-yards to be bespattered with decaying refuse. I allude more particularly here to certain properties at Broomhill. These are old, and at the time I reported to you were much needing repair. The rooms are very small, and certainly not fitted for a family of children. Your S. I. used every means to get all defects remedied, but I am informed much is still left undone. It was neccessary to send 9 cases to the Fever Hospital where 3 cases proved fatal. The following is the distribution of the disease Wombwell Proper. New Wombwell. Jump. Hemingfield. Broomhill. 1- 1. 2. 1. 6. SCARLET FEVER has again given considerable anxiety. It had been absent about 3 months but about the middle of March it was again in evidence in a peculiar manner. Of a simple type, accompanied by very little con¬ stitutional disturbance, parents treated it as of no consequence, and children were allowed to freely intermix. When discovered by Medical men, principally through observing desquamation, there was a rush of Notifications. It was