[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Bromley R.D.C.

  • Bromley (London, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Bromley R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    liad nasal discharge, sickness, and complained of sore throat. Mr. Dunlop called in a medical man to see the child on the 13th February, a swab was taken on the 14th with a positive result, and the child notified as Diphtheria and sent back to Hospital on the 17th, and she was again discharged on April 5th. There had previously been no case of Diphtheria in the village of Knockholt since 1909. The case notified from Dowme in March was undoubtedly an imported one. The patient w^as a young woman in service in an adjoining District who became unwell and went to see a doctor on the 8th March, when a swab was taken from her throat. She returned to her home at Downe the same day, and w^as subsequently attended by a local medical man who notified the case as one of Diphtheria on the 11th March. The case notified in October was proved on inquiry to have been contracted in London, where the patient had been in contact with a diphtheria case 4 days before being notified. The other fatal case was the one notified in March from Orpington. A girl aged 4 years who died in Hospital 6 days after admission. Enteric Fever. Five cases w^re notified, with one death, as compared with 5 non-fatal cases in the previous year Case I. A young married woman, notified from Keston Mark on May 29th, and removed to Hospital same day. Origin doubtful, but possibly insanitary surroundings (which were remedied) were a predisposing cause. The case was mild. Case II. was that of a young man residing at St. Mary Cray, notified on August 13th, and treated at home. The patient went to work to London daily, and this case was also of a mild type. Case III. was a young woman notified from Chelsfield, admitted to Hospital on September 5th, where she died on the following day. Case IV. was that of a man at St. Paul’s Cray, notified on September 25th, and also removed to Hospital. The cesspools were in a bad condition and continually flowing on to the land near where the patient worked. Case V. was that of a boy from Farnborough on December 6th. A sister had Enteric Fever at the same house in January, 1912, but the sanitation of the house was satisfactory.