[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council.

  • Northamptonshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the entrance to the village caught the disease from attending “ school in the town, and it spread to eleven other cases in the same court. By keeping the schools closed, and by strictly “ ordering the children in the court not to mix with the other village children, the disease quickly died out, so that “ I think our advice in this case must have been followed. “ Shortly after, another case occurred again in a child ‘‘ attending a Northampton school, but the Hon. C. B. Spencer “ most kindly offered to defray all expenses if this case could “ be isolated, so I took the child at once into the Harding- “ stone Isolation Hospital, and no other case caught the “ infection—even in the same cottage. This again emphasizes the point I have already made as to the value of such “ hospitals. That our advice as to the isolation of these cases was not followed in Bugbrooke we have had tAVO striking ‘‘ examples. In two cases during the year children have been “ discovered running about the village, and eA^en attending ‘‘ school, during the peeling stage. In the first case a prose- “ cution Avas undertaken by your Council and a fine of £1 “ Avas inflicted by the County Magistrates ; the second case “ has only just occurred, and is still under consideration as “ to AAdiether any prosecution shall be enforced. It is almost impossible to limit an outbreak of this disease under these “ conditions.” OUNDLE Rural.—“ Buhvick Avas Ausited by a severe “ epidemic of Scarlet Fever in March. One case Avas imported “ from Wellingborough, and unfortunately Avas never notified, “ but was sent to school in an infectious state. When I heard “ of it the disease had secured a firm hold among the “ children. The School Avas at once closed and the epidemic “ soon subsided, although there Avere 24 cases, one of Avhich “ proved fatal. Tavo very mild cases of Scarlet Fever Avere “ reported at the end of the year. Scarlet Fever has been endemic in Nassington for a long time and again appeared