[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashton-under-Lyne Borough.

  • Ashton-under-Lyne (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashton-under-Lyne Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The question of treatment I considered under the three headings :— (a) The recent recommendations of the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board. {b) The plan adopted in Manchester. (c) Some suggestions for use in Ashton. (i.) The use, if possible, of voluntary notification by the doctor in suitable cases. (ii.) That cases so notified be visited first by the Medical Officer of Health, who would advise as to the disinfection of rooms, avoidance of spitting, etc. (iii.) Further visits to be made by the Health Visitors once a month. They would give a leaflet of advice and personal explanations. (iv.) The disinfection of the room walls by dough or fluid disinfectant, moist cleaning of furniture and woodwork, limewashing where required. The cleansing to be carried out as far as possible by the tenant, under the supervision of the Sanitary Inspector. Any further disinfection to be done by the Sanitary Department. This is to be done every three months. The same disinfection and cleansing to be carried out in all rooms so soon as it is known that they have been vacated by a phthisical person, and in all cases where a death has occurred. c