[Report 1885] / Medical Officer of Health, Sunderland County Borough.

  • Sunderland (Tyne and Wear, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1885
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Credit: [Report 1885] / Medical Officer of Health, Sunderland County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    report, 1885. voluntary. The new Local Act, however, gave power to the Corporation to compel them to report the principal infectious diseases. In the earlier part of the year no such law existed, and its want was very seriously felt during the epidemic of Measles, when it was impossible to obtain information of all the cases which arose, and, consequently, some parents continued to send their children to school after the disease had appeared in their houses. Such an occurrence could not have happened if noti¬ fication had been in force. It is true that Measles is not one of the diseases which are to be notified under ordinary circum¬ stances, but only if the disease assumes epidemic dimensions. Clearly such a condition occurred during the early part of the year when the information would have been most valuable. In Table T., page 21, all the cases of infectious diseases which became known to the Sanitary Authority are given. The italics denote the deaths and the ordinary figures the cases. They are arranged in districts and in quarters.