[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following Aufchorit.es have not yet made provision for the Isolation of Infectious Diseases:— Urban.—Hinderwell, Kirklington and Upsland, Malton, Masham, Pickering. Rural.—Aysgarth, Easingwold, Helmsley, Kirbymoorside, Leyburn, Malton, Pickering, Reeth, Richmond, Thirsk, Whitby. SPECIAL REPORTS. Date. Medical Officer. District. Subject. January 27th Dr. Cockcroft Leyburn Mumps February 5th Dr. Colby Malton Rural Whooping Cough „ 5th Dr. Colby Malton Rural Scarlet Fever „ 6th Dr. Eddison Bedale Diphtheria „ 17th Dr. Buchanan Thirsk Whooping Cough ,, 23rd Dr. Holt Malton Urban Measles „ 25th Dr. Eddison Bedale Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever March 2nd Dr. Hutchinson ... Northallerton Rural Diphtheria ,, 31st Dr. Jackson Ormesby Measles April 11th Dr. Raimes Flaxton Measles „ 18th Dr. Stainthorpe ... Guisborough Rural Scarlet Fever May 11th Dr. Cockcroft Masham Scarlet Fever „ 13th Dr. Porter Helmsley Water „ 16th Dr. Buchanan Thirsk Scarlet Fever June 3rd Dr. Watson Thornaby-on-Tees Measles „ 10th Dr. Williams Richmond Diphtheria „ 17th Dr. Cockcroft Leyburn Diphtheria „ 20th Dr. Eddison Bedale Scarlet Fever July 4th Dr. W illiams Richmond Water ,, 6th Dr. Cockcroft Leyburn Diphtheria „ 23rd Dr. Cockcroft Leyburn Diphtheria, Typhoid Fever „ 25th Dr. Baigent Northallerton Urban Scarlet Fever „ 27th Dr. Cockcroft Leyburn Scarlet Fever August 14 th Dr. Porter Helmsley Sanitary „ 25th Dr. Eddison Bedale Diphtheria, Typhoid Fever October 26th Dr. Colby Malton Rural Whooping Cough „ 31st Dr. Jackson Ormesby Typhoid Fever November 7th Dr. Colby Malton Rural Whooping Cough „ 10th Dr. Cockcroft Leyburn Whooping Cough „ 16th Dr. Holt Malton Urban Whooping Cough „ 28th Dr. Porter Helmsley Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever December 5th Dr. Jackson Ormesby Typhoid Fever „ 5th Dr. Holt Malton Urban Whooping Cough „ 11th Dr. Colby Malton Rural Diphtheria „ 11th Dr. Stainthorpe ... Skelton and Brotton Diphtheria „ 11th Dr. Stainthorpe ... Guisborough Urban Diphtheria Scarlet Fever occurred in 35 Districts, 418 cases being reported with 6 deaths. The attack rate per one thousand of the population being 1*81, the death rate per thousand 002, and the death rate of persons attacked 1-45 per cent. One case at Newton in the Leyburn District. Seventeen in the Thirsk District, the first occurred at Skipton, the disease being imported from the West Riding, and spread to Catton, Ainderby Quernhow, and Sinderby, one case also occurred at Thornton-le-Moor contracted in Hartlepool. Twenty cases in the Whitby Urban District, twelve removed to Hospital, Cliff Street School closed, Dr. Tinley, referring to Scarlet Fever and Chicken Pox, writes, “I have received a considerable amount of help from the teachers, and also “ from the School Attendance Officer, in connection with these two infectious illnesses. So far as I know, there is only one objection to the closing of a school for infectious “ illnesses, and it is that one loses the help of the teachers and the Attendance Officer. “ This is undoubtedly an objection, but I think the advantage of closing in stopping the “ disease easily outweighs any advantage that one gains from knowing children who are “ suffering from infectious disease, and whose cases are not notified by a doctor.” Five in the Pickering Urban District and two in the Malton Urban. Two cases in the Guis- borough Rural District, two in the Guisborough Urban, eleven in the Loftus District, twenty-five in the Redcar District, nineteen removed to Hospital, five in the Saltburn District, two removed to Hospital, and forty-one in the Skelton and Brotton District, no deaths. Five cases in the Northallerton Rural District, two being at Romanby and one each at Danby Wiske, Great Smeaton, and Brompton, two of the cases were imported. Five in the Flaxton District, one being at Haxby, one at Wigginton, two at New Earswick, and one in Malton Road, all removed to Hospital. Three in the Masham District, one being in the Leeds Waterworks village, Breary Banks, and treated in the Corporation’s Isolation Hospital. Eleven cases in the Aysgarth District, eight, a continuation of the outbreak of the previous year, being at Bainbridge. Twelve in the Eston District, ten removed to Hospital. Two in the Stokesley District, one being at Rounton and one at Crathorne, both removed to Hospital. Eight cases in the Malton Rural District, and onq