[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Burley-in-Wharfedale U.D.C.

  • Burley-in-Wharfedale (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Burley-in-Wharfedale U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cases originated from a cellar drain communicating with the main sewer, and two others were directly traced to other districts. No epidemic of any kind was noted. We are very free from zymotic disease in Burley, and for this we must credit the adoption of the Notification Act, and the prompt measure.s taken for ensuring isolation. At present we have no hospital to take our patients to, but it is expected that soon a hospital, common to the VVharfedale Union, will he erected in the neighbourhood, and then early and complete isolation will Ije possible. The rate of mortality among infants is extremely low ; more intelligent ideas are prevailing respecting the feeding and care of infants of tender months, and we have to thank our village nurse (Nurse Williams) for the unremitting and skilful attention which she has shown in her care of these little ones. Consumption is not so prevalent in the district as it was at one time ; I cannot ascribe any reason for this, unless it is that under healthier conditions children prone to this are growing up stronger, and more able to resist its onset. ^^Certain it is that great progress is shown in making our dwelling houses healthier places to live in, and over-crowding is avoided by the erection of many new houses of a better class for working people. Under the Notification of Infectious Diseases Act seven cases were reported, six of enteric fever, and one of scarlatina. SANITARY MATTERS. Considerable progress can be reported in the state of sanitation in the village. Many old standing nuisances have been remedied, and all new plans have been considered from a high standpoint of sanitary perfection.