[Report 1885] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford.

  • Herefordshire Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities.
Date:
1885
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Credit: [Report 1885] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    short time with a relation of his, who was keeping a ready- made clothes shop in tin's city—a trade which (if it had not been for the greatest precautions and the patient kept from the shop) might have been productive of disastrous consequences amongst those purchasing goods therefrom ; for a more convenient means of spreading broadcast the germs of this loathsome disease could not be mentioned. Fortunately, this patient had been vaccinated in infancy. The case was, therefore, somewhat of a mild type. The want of a Hospital for Infectious Disease renders the inhabitants of this city liable to be attacked by Small-Pox at any moment. Scarlet Fever made its appearance amongst some private patients, but was, by timely information, kept to the two houses and stamped out. Diphtheria showed very slightly in a case. Croup of a mild form also appeared amongst well-to-do people ; four cases, all recovered. Whooping Cough, from which I have had information of three cases amongst private practice. Fevers, one only reported to me. This case was a well-to-do builder living on his own property, in a house built by himself, with every known sanitary arrangement ; the cause, I have reason to believe, being hepatic Disease and Hemorrhage. Diarrhoea and Dysentery need but little comment from me. That 36 cases have come to my knowledge is certain ; but what is this number compared to other towns in England and on the continent ? This great reduction in the total 36 I maintain is entirely owing to the unceasing sanitary precautions being enforced during the hot weather, as ordered in my Quarterly Report for June last—copy of which is attached. Erysipelas shows in six cases, three of which were in the Infirmary, following cases after admission, needing no comment, from me. Ague is reported to have shown in the Infirmary, one case having been returned. I would observe that this is the first case I have had reported for thirteen years in this county. This ends the Analysis of Table A and B. 1 now present you with a copy of my four Quarterly Reports, wherein is made visible tile routine work for the year.