Mr. Spear's report to the Local Government Board upon the prevalence of diphtheria in the Fareham registration district, and upon the occurrence therein of enteric fever.

  • Spear, John.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Mr. Spear's report to the Local Government Board upon the prevalence of diphtheria in the Fareham registration district, and upon the occurrence therein of enteric fever. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OFFICIAL COPY. Mr. Spear’s Report to the Local Government Board upon the Prevalence of Diphtheria in the Fare ham Regis¬ tration District; and upon the occurrence therein of Enteric Fever. George Buchanan, Medical Department, April 23rd, 1889. This registration district comprises the Fareham Urban and the Fareham General Rural Sanitary Districts. The former is situated in the centre of the description, registration area, and includes an acreage of 6,386 and a population, according to the last census, and including the county asylum, of 7,183. The rural district extends over an area of 35,491 acres, and contains a population, according to the census returns, of 9,748. The district is bounded on the south and south-west by Stokes Bay and Southampton Water, on the west by the Hamble River, and on the north by the Chalk Downs. On the east the ramifications of Portsmouth Harbour encroach, upon it. Geologically, it is occupied by the Middle and Lower Eocene formations—the Bagshot Sands and London Clay, the latter covered in parts of Fareham town and elsewhere by diluvial deposit of flint and chalk gravel; on the north and east a small portion of the district stands on Chalk. The occupations of the district are mainly connected with agriculture. Fareham is a market town, and here, and along the coast, there is a small sea-faring population. Breweries at various places afford employment to a number of persons. Scattered cases of diphtheria, or small groupings of cases, have occurred in Diphtheria various localities, but the epidemic spread of the disease has been confined to prevalence, the large parish of Titchfield in the western part of the Rural Sanitary District. The area chiefly affected extends for some four miles, from the Hamble River Infected on the western boundary of th$ Rural Sanitary District across the Titchfield area- Common to the Titchfield River. It includes the hamlets of Swanwick and Salisbury on the west, a number of scattered houses on the now much enclosed Common and the town of Titchfield on the east. Swanwick and Titchfield, at the two extremities, are respectively situated by the two water¬ ways spoken of, at the foot of the slopes leading from the elevated intervening Common. At Titchfield the soil is alluvial; on the Common, and at Swanwick, it is for the most part sandy. The people on the Common are engaged largely in vegetable and fruit growing (the soil being specially adapted to the cultivation of strawberries), and a small jam factory has been established. At Swanwick there is a quay at which barges with manure from Portsmouth and Southampton occasionally unload. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, BY EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE and SPOTTISWOODE, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, E.n • ADAM and CHARLES BLACK, 6, North Bridge, Edindurgh ; HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., 104, Grafton Street, Dublin. No. 41. 1889. Price Sixpence.