[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Madron U.D.C.

  • Madron (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1895
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    Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health OF THE Urban District Council of Madron, 10 9 5. It is gratifying that as the time comes round for presenting the usual Annual Report of the District, to be able again to speak favourably of its condition in its varying aspects, and first, as to its sanitary condition, to say that the general health has, on the whole, been good, with the exception of Whooping Cough which, although prevalent in the whole District, has been exceptionally mild, as compared with what has occurred in former years_no death has been registered as caused by it. Scarlatina cannot be said to have entirely disappeared, for occasionally, and at long intervals, a mild and apparently a sporadic case appears, not spreading and dying out without a second case occurring and which, considering its former prevalence in the Hea and Tolcarne neighbourhoods, is almost what might have been expected. This year 12 cases have been notified without a death, as compared with 21 in 1894, and 65 in 1893 with 10 deaths. No case of zymotic disease has been admitted to the Workhouse Infitmary as compared with 1893. There was a case brought from Plymouth, said to be Diphtheria, but if so it must have been very mild considering its rapid recovery. It was at Tolcarne. Except in a single instance of a family at Jamaica Place, and more connected with school attendance than any other cause, we have not been called upon by either the Central or Local Authority to furnish any special interim Report. The usual Report read at the Board’s Monthly Meeting has, of course, been sent regularly. Very frequent inspection of the District has been carefully carried out. Instead of as formerly, at stated times, we have found it more satisfactory to make it somewhat irregularly and in detail; as more likely to arrive at the facts among that class where inspection is most required, and bo see them in their every day life. WHERRY-TOWN.—Following the route found convenient in the past, we again propose to notice Wherry-town first, which remains unaltered, and our remarks of last and previous years apply equally to this year also ; the refuse storage and its disposal, drains and water supply, etc., are all as they were before, no new building having been erected there for the year, nor indeed for several years past. The houses and premises aie an y well looked after, and are much sought for by the respectable artizans, being a convemen distance from Penzance, and in good order structurally, and clean; nothing like over¬ crowding exists, and much less poultry is kept than formerly. The house and other refuse has always been moderate in quantity, and pretty regularly removed. The roads be g immediately continuous with, and contiguous to, Penzance, are fair y scavenged and kept in fair repair, but perhaps not so much so this year as before, possibly from bepg very fla and without gratings to take off the surface water.