Dr. Parsons's report to the local government board on scarlet fever in the Huntingdon registration district.

  • Parsons, H. Franklin.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Dr. Parsons's report to the local government board on scarlet fever in the Huntingdon registration district. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    4. All houses in the district should be furnished with a sufficient supply of wholesome water. If practicable the Authority should procure for their district the advantage of a public service. Wells of which the water is contaminated should be closed. 5. Privies in close contiguity to houses should be removed. Privies and ashpits that are so constructed as to be a nuisance should be re-constructed on improved principles, for which the Authority should consult the Report to the Local Government Board “ On certain means for preventing excrement nuisances in towns and villages.” The more important of these principles as regards Godmanchester are that the receptacle should be of the smallest practicable dimensions and water-tight; that it should be so constructed as to permit the daily covering of excrement with ashes, and so roofed in as to afford free ventilation while excluding rain. In situations where the privy is unavoidably near a house, or where there are no external means of access to it for emptying, some form of privy with movable receptacle will probably be found the best. Arrangements should be made for the frequent systematic removal of excrement and ashes. 6. The abatement of nuisances, from whatever cause arising, should be thoroughly carried out. 7. The Town Council should provide, either alone or in conjunction with some other Authority, a place for the reception of cases of infectious disease which have no proper accommodation, or which cannot be effectually isolated at their own homes, and a disinfecting stove for the disinfection by heat of infected clothing. The provisions of the Public Health Act with respect to infectious diseases should be duly carried out. Huntingdon Rural District. 1. The Authority should possess one or more places into which persons suffering from infectious sickness may be removed. These places should be conveniently situated as regards the principal centres of population. The accommodation to be provided need not be on a large or costly scale, but it is essential that it should be always in readiness, so as to be available for the isolation of the earliest cases of infectious disease, which might otherwise give rise to an epidemic. For the principles to be held in view, the Authority should consult the Local Government Board’s Memorandum on Hospital Accommodation to be given by Sanitary Authorities. They should provide also an apparatus for the disinfection of infected clothes. They may find it convenient to join for these purposes with some other Authority. 2. Procedings should be taken, in accordance with § 126 of the Public Health Act, against persons who expose themselves in public places while suffering from dangerous infectious diseases. 3. The Authority should use the powers which they possess under the Public Health Act, 1875 and the Public Health (Water) Act, 1878, to secure for each house in their district an adequate supply of wholesome water.