Disease and defective house sanitation : being two lectures delivered before the Harveian Society of London / by W. H. Corfield.

  • Corfield, W. H. (William Henry), 1843-1903.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Disease and defective house sanitation : being two lectures delivered before the Harveian Society of London / by W. H. Corfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    well until she was removed into a boudoir adjoin- ing her bedroom a fortnight after her confine- ment. She then developed symptoms of puer- peral septicaemia and became rapidly worse. I found a defective soil-pipe in the passage adjoin- ing the boudoir, and insisted on the immediate removal of the patient, the result being her speedy recovery. 4. I mention this case here because it is an example of some in which precautionary mea- sures were properly taken before confinement. A hole half an inch in diameter was found in a soil-pipe in the space under the floor in the lobby of the room in which the confinement was to take place. Foul smells had often been noticed at this spot, but their origin had not previously been traced. Pneumonia.—I have seldom been called in to inspect houses on account of this disease as it is apparently not recognised that it may be produced by foul air. The most notable instance was in the case of a large school where there was an out- break of pneumonia amongst the boys. I found various defects admitting drain air directly into the school building, and also a very foul ventilator in the roadway close by the entrance to the school-house. Air from this ventilator had been