[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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    solution of a carbolic acid, and tho ceilings and walls lime-washed, the room should be unoccupied and freely open to tho external air for a fortnight, if possible, for plenty of fresh air is the truest, best, and cheapest disinfectant. Vaccination.—.Every child should be vaccinated before the third month ; if delayed beyond that period, it may increase the irritation of teething. Skin rashes are often erroneously said to be caused by -vaccination. All persons should be re-vaccinated after eight year's of age,—-and when Small Pox prevails in a family or neighbourhood. Clergymen, medical practitioners, Scripture readers, and other persons interested in Sanitary reform living in the district, are invited to inform the Medical Officer of Health, and the Sanitary Inspectors, of any nuisances which they discover in their neigh- bourhood—-such communications to be considered strictly con- fidential. Every ratepayer has a right of complaint, and it is only by such co-operation that Sanitary Officers have a power of remedying nuisances and of checking the ravages of epidemic disease. PRINTED AT THE OFFICES OF THE HEREFORD TIMES