[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Pudsey Borough.

  • Pudsey (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Pudsey Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    H favourable or otherwise to their growth. In the same way it is probable that the development of the typhoid fever fungus is stimulated or retarded by the state of the season as to heat, wetness, etc. These germs in the ground are potential for evil. They are the suds of death and disease, buried but ready to grow under suitable influences. I rom the above the necessity for preventing the pollution of the soil is obvious if the town is to be kept healthy. Epidemic Diarrhoea.—This is a “ filth disease ” like typhoid fever, and probably engendered in the same way. Judged from the number of cases and the number of deaths it is a more formidable disease than typhoid fever. The cases in the Autumn of 1898 were very numerous and resulted in 14 deaths. It is interesting to note that the 4 feet ground temper¬ ature never exceeded 54 F. Diphtheria .-This disease is fortunately a rare one in the district, and the number of cases in 1898 was unusually large 21, or with three cases of membranous croup 24. The advan¬ tage of an isolation hospital was proved in dealing with the cases. In April nine cases, verified by cultures, broke out in one family. One of them died, and the rest of the family were removed to the hospital, and no more cases occurred. In September six cases broke out within a few days in three houses close together, one case died, and the remaining five were sent to hospital, where another of the cases soon died. I here was no spread of the disease in the district. Calverley Joint Hospital Summary for 1898. Scarlet Fever. Enteric Fever. Diphtheria. Admitted. Discharged Died. Pudsey 48 • 23 14 85 70 10 Farsley 6 O O 9 7 1 Calverley 1 1 1 Eccleshill ... 4 5 9 9 2 Idle ... 5 G 1 12 5 3 Total G3 38 15 116 92 1G