Dr. R.W. Johnstone's report upon the repeated occurrence of enteric fever, from year to year, at Jennet Hill and Stanford Dingley, in the Rural District of Bradfield.

  • Johnstone, R.W. (Ralph William)
Date:
1910
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Credit: Dr. R.W. Johnstone's report upon the repeated occurrence of enteric fever, from year to year, at Jennet Hill and Stanford Dingley, in the Rural District of Bradfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. R. W. Johnstone’s Report upon the repeated occurrence of Enteric Fever, from year to year, at Jennet Hill and Stanford Dingley, in the Rural District of Bradfleld. Arthur Newsholme, Medical Officer, 25 January, 1910. In April, 1908, the Rural District Council of Bradfield wrote to the Board stating that the locality of Jennet Hill and Stanford Dingley had been subject to repeated outbreaks of enteric fever, and that the Council had endeavoured in vain to find any cause for the excessive incidence of the fever on this part of the district. They requested that the Board would allow one of their Medical Inspectors to undertake an investigation of the question. This duty was allotted to me, with directions to confine myself to making inquiry into the cause of enteric fever in this particular locality. I visited the district in June and on several subsequent occasions. My inquiries led me, at an early stage, to the conclusion that Stanford Dingley was not materially implicated in the spread of enteric fever in the locality. Almost all the cases had a more or less direct connection with Jennet Hill. Description of Jennet Hill. — On the road between Stanford Dingley and Clay Cross, about quarter of a mile south-east of the former, there is a collection of cottages known as Jennet Hill. It is hardly of sufficient importance to be styled a hamlet. It consists of a row of ten dwellings, known as Lailey’s Row, facing upon a cul-de-sac off the road referred to above, and of nine other dwellings scattered irregularly along the same road in the direction of Clay Cross, and also in the direction of Stanford Dingley. Jennet Hill is situated near the centre of the rural district of Bradfield. There is no large town in the vicinity, Reading lying seven miles to the east, and Newbury seven miles to the west. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, By DARLING & SON, Ltd., 34-40, Bacon Street, E. And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from WYMAN and SONS, Ltd., Fetter Lane, E.C. ; or OLIVER & BOYD, Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh ; or E. PONSONBY, 116, Grafton Street, Dublin. 1910. No, 22. (12785—21.) Price Fourpence. Wt. 33827—453. 500. 2/10. D & S.