Dr. G.S. Buchanan's report to the Local Government Board upon an outbreak of enteric fever at Wadebridge, in the rural district of St. Columb Major, upon the sanitary condition of the place and upon administration by the St. Columb Major Rural District Council / [G.S. Buchanan].

  • Buchanan, George Seaton, Sir, 1869-1936.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Dr. G.S. Buchanan's report to the Local Government Board upon an outbreak of enteric fever at Wadebridge, in the rural district of St. Columb Major, upon the sanitary condition of the place and upon administration by the St. Columb Major Rural District Council / [G.S. Buchanan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OFFICIAL COPY. Dr. G. S. Buchanan’s Report to the Local Government Board upon an Outbreak of Enteric Fever at Wadebridge, in the Rural District of St. Columb Major ; upon the Sanitary condition of the place; and upon Administration by the St. Columb Major Rural District Council. Richard T. Ti-iorne, Medical Officer, December 7th, 1897. In the latter part of August, 1897, the Board were informed by Dr. E. C. Edwards, in his capacity as deputy to Dr. Mackay, Medical Officer of Health of the St. Columb Major Rural District, that an outbreak of enteric fever had occurred in Wadebridge, a small town situated in St. Breock, one of the parishes of that Rural District. On receipt of this information, the Board, having in view the unsatisfactory nature of the water supply and other sanitary shortcomings of Wadebridge,. which had again and again been commented on in the annual reports of the Medical Officer of Health, inquired what action this Rural District Council proposed to take to provide wholesome water and to carry out other sanitary measures necessary for the place. Later, complaints having come to the Board from the Parish Council of St. Breock and from certain inhabitants of Wadebridge as to prevalence of insanitary conditions and as to increase of the fever, and no reply having meanwhile been received to the Board’s letter, local inquiry was ordered. Accordingly I visited Wadebridge on September 28th, and following days. PART I.—WADEBRIDGE ; ITS SANITARY CONDITION AND ADMINISTRATION. The town of Wadebrido-e is situated on the western bank of the River O Camel, some six miles above Padstow, on the north coast of Cornwall. All parts of the town are on Devonian rock, covered in places by a few feet of surface soil. Its western portion, between “ White Rock ” and the western end of Molesworth Street, stands from 50 to 100 feet above Ordnance Datum. From the higher ground hereabouts the land on which the town is built falls, to north-east by a gradual slope to the Camel, to south-west steeply to Polmorla Brook, which joins the Camel at Wadebridge. Immediately opposite Wadebridge, and reached by a 15th century stone bridge, is a long street of houses called “ Egloshayle Road,” leading to the village of Egloshayle, some j mile up the Camel on its eastern bank. This street and village are in the Bodmin Rural District, which is here separated from the St. Columb Major Rural District by the Camel River. For practical purposes, however, they may be considered as forming part of Wadebridge. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, By DARLING & SON, Ltd., 1-3, Great St. Thomas Apostle, E.C. And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, E.C.; or JOHN MENZIES & Co., 12, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, and 90, West Nile Street, Glasgow; or HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., Limited, 104, Grafton Street, Dublin, No. 121. 1897. Price Niuepenc$, 14891—375—10/96 Wt 14719 D Ac S 19 l r L> iwtC Ovi/CR j LIBRARY .v^neral Collections