[Report 1881] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford.

  • Herefordshire Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities.
Date:
1881
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Credit: [Report 1881] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    account. Erysipelas is also the cause of one. Puerperal Fever caused two deaths, one being mainly attri- butable to the woman having contracted scarlet fever during parturition, in the Parish of Thornbury. It only needs my adding that I have investigated all the before-mentioned cases personally very many times, that every Sanitary precaution has been adopted and promptly enforced both by isolation and disinfection. The routine work of the Inspector of Nuisances for the whole District, Mr. Thomas Barrs, Bromyard; Number of Nuisances found to exist ... ... 140 New Privies erected, &c. .. ... ... ... 10 Dwellings rebuilt or repaired ... ... ... 30 Dwellings cleaned, whitewashed, &c. ... ... 12 New Drains and Watercourses ... ... ... 16 Lodging-houses Inspected, etc. ... ... ... 3 Pumps put in order ... ... ... ... ... 4 Exposure of fish, unfit for human food, fined 10s., costs, 9s. ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Overcrowding removed ... ... ... ... 3 Offal and other filth removed ... ... ... 25 Nuisances not yet complied with ... ... ... 36 In conclusion I would add the Inspector of Nuisance’s time having been considerably taken up in disinfecting premises where scarlet fever predominated, he has been unable to complete the water survey supply. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, VAVASOUR SANDFORD, M.D.