[Report 1885] / Medical Officer of Health, Wolverhampton County Borough.

  • Wolverhampton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1885
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Credit: [Report 1885] / Medical Officer of Health, Wolverhampton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and there is very little summer Diarrhoea; the closing weeks are again very cold and harsh, and the 4th Quarter has the resulting high chest and aged returns ; the prevalent had trade and great distress in the spring and winter would increase the rates in the 1st and 4th Quarters, and may partly account for our had comparison with the urban districts (table 10) in these quarters; this is confined to the East returns where the distress was chiefly felt. Our general and Zymotic rates compare favourably with those of the large towns ; note the steady diminution in our Scarlet Fever deaths, and their continued high number in the towns, (table 10). There is little in the comparative returns of the two sub-districts that is not attributable to their circumstances as pointed out in last year’s Report, except the strange limitation of Whooping Cough to the West. The routine work of inspection has gone on well during the year, 2,091 notices were served for the abatement of various nuisances, 206 were on hand from last year, 2,103 were complied with. The Bakehouses having been put under the Sanitary authorities this year, the Sub-Inspectors made out lists of all those in their districts, and they inspect them regularly every fortnight. One house was closed being unfit for habitation. As instances of what may still be found in the town I may mention the following : in one good street two cess-pits were discovered which had been un¬ emptied for over thirty years, indeed their existence was forgotten, one contained 6, the other 4 loads ; in another main street the pollution of a soft water cistern and stoppage of a drain led to the discovery of a cess-pit forty-one feet deep, and containing 12 loads. Unwholesome Food. 2 calves, 5 sheep, 37 pigs, 713 lbs. of mutton, 241 lbs. of pork, and 2 barrels of oysters, have been condemned as unfit for food, and destroyed. Disinfection. 102 houses and 61 vehicles have been disinfected with sulphur fumes; 1,180 articles of clothing have been disinfected at the Borough Stove, 29 with sulphur fumes, and 6 have been burnt. REMARKS ON THE TABLES. The returns made by the Registrar for the East Sub-District include all deaths occurring in the General Hospital and Workhouse ; many of these are from outside the Borough, others from the West Sub-District, and others are returned as “ no home ” ; the particulars of these cases are all entered in table 7. In all the tables for the Sub-Districts the deaths are referred to where they