[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Wolverhampton County Borough.

  • Wolverhampton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1897
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Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Wolverhampton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In one house 2 cases occurred simultaneously; these were removed, and 3 children remained unattacked. In 24 instances secondary cases occurred without Hospital removal ; there were 36 such cases ; they occurred at the following intervals after the preceding case had been taken ill :—one day, 2 cases; two days, 5 cases; three days, 11 cases; five days, 1 case; six days, 3 cases; seven days, 2 cases; twelve days, 1 case; thirteen days, 2 cases ; fourteen days, 1 case ; fifteen days, 3 cases ; forty- seven days, 2 cases ; fifty, sixty-four, and sixty-nine days, 1 case each. In some of these Hospital removal was ultimately effected ; in five instances there was no recurrence, 12 children escaping. Thus in 111 houses there was no further case after Hospital removal, though 295 children remained. In 11 houses further cases occurred after Hospital removal, 14 cases occurring at the following intervals after removal:—one day, 1 case; two days, 4 cases : three days, 2 cases ; four, five, eight, and fourteen days, 1 case each ; twenty-five days, 2 cases ; and twenty- seven days, 1 case. The first 7 cases were almost certainly infected before removal, and the last 3 were probably independent infection, so that removal only failed to limit infection in 4 cases. In 8 of these houses 15 children remained unattacked after final removal, so that altogether 310 children escaped infection after Hospital removal. In the West cases were treated at home in 60 houses. In 26 the only children were those primarily attacked. In 9 all the other children were sent away. In 1 the patient died in two days, in another in seven days. In 23 houses prolonged isolation was attempted, other children (43) remaining at home. In 11 of these secondary cases occurred, 15 cases occurring at the following intervals after the primary case :—Three days, 3 cases ; seven, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen days, 1 case each ; fifteen days, 3 cases; forty-seven days, 2 cases; fifty, sixty-four, and sixty-nine days, 1 case each.