[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Whitstable U.D.C.

  • Whitstable (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Whitstable U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Bakehouses and Slaughter houses have been regularly inspected, and have been found to be well kept and clean, and the limewashing regularly attended to. HOUSING. The District is adequately supplied with houses for the working classes, in all the newer parts of the town these are well built, and have ample garden space. The passages at the backs of the houses have not been properly made and taken over by the Council, and especially in wet weather are in many instances in a very bad state. There is very little overcrowding, and is usually promptly rectified when attention is called to it. Proceedings were taken in one case when the notice to abate the nuisance caused by overcrowding was not complied with, a conviction was obtained, and an order made. The Notification of Diseases Act was adopted by the Council in 1894, and all cases which cannot be treated at home on account of want of proper isolation, are removed to the Isolation Hospital at Herne, belonging to the Blean Rural District Council, who are under contract to remove and treat notifiable infectious cases occurring in our District. The Council possesses an Isolation Hospital for Small Pox cases situated about 1^ miles outside the town. Before this could be used, more accommodation would have to be found for the staff, and also some adequate means of disinfection. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Eighty six cases of Diphtheria, thirty six of Scarlet Fever, five of Enteric, and three of Erysipelas were notified during the year. Twenty eight cases of Diphtheria, eleven of Scarlet Fever, and one of Enteric were removed to the Isolation Hospital.