[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans Urban Sanitary District & Rural Sanitary District.

  • St. Albans (England). Urban Sanitary District.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans Urban Sanitary District & Rural Sanitary District. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vaccinated in infancy, and one of them proved fatal dying in the temporary Smallpox Hospital in St. Albans. Scarlet Fever had been smouldering in the district since 1892, twelve cases having occurred during thatyear, mainly in Harpenden, Gustard Wood, and Sandridge. Four cases occurred in Harpenden in the first quarter of 1893 In May, June, and July there were eighteen cases in Harpenden, three in Wheathampstead, four in Redbourn, one in St. Stephen’s, and four in St. Michael’s in the immediate neigh¬ bourhood of St. Albans. In August and September there were eightcases in Wheathampstead, one in Harpenden, four in St. Michael’s, one in St. Peter’s, and one in Sandridge. In October there were five cases in St. Michael’s, four in Sandridge, one in Redbourn, and one in Harpenden. In November five cases in St. Michael’s, three in Harpenden, one in Sandridge, and one in Wheathampstead. In December we had four cases in Harpenden, two in St. Michael’s, and one in St. Peter’s. Three of the cases of Diphtheria occurred in Harpenden in January, February, and March, but two of them were associated with Scarlet Fever. Another case occurred in April in Wheathampstead, and a fifth in Sandridge New Town, close to St. Albans, in October. Three isolated cases of Typhoid occurred in July, September and October in Harpenden, Wheathampstead and St. Michael's respectively. There was a good deal of Influenza in various parts of the district in the Spring when it assumed in some parishes the proportions of an epidemic; there was also a certain amount towards the end of the year. It was not, however generally of so severe a type as in former years. Two deaths were ascribed to this cause in Plarpenden in March, one in Redbourn in March, one in St. Stephen’s in January and another in May, one in St. Peter’s in April, one in St. Michael’s also in April, and one in December in Wheathampstead. One death from Measles occurred in Harpenden in January, and one from Whooping Cough in St. Peter’s in November ; but the district has been practically free from these diseases throughout the greater part of the year. The great event of the year, from a sanitary point of view, has been the opening in St. Albans of the Sisters’ Hospital for Infectious Diseases, provided by the muni-