[Report 1898-1899] / Medical Officer of Health and Port Medical Officer of Health, Great Yarmouth Borough.

  • Great Yarmouth (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1898-1899] / Medical Officer of Health and Port Medical Officer of Health, Great Yarmouth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Health Act, 1875, and the model bye-laws of the Local Government Board for the regulation of Houses Let in Lodgings. Crowded Out. The deaths of infants, under a year, from all causes, throughout the Borough, were 12 in July, 25 in August, 77 in September, 32 in October, and 17 in November. These figures are significant, and such deaths occuring just when the health conditions of the children’s homes are much impared, and their own comfort and necessities much neglected, seem to indicate something of the penalty Yarmouth pays for its popularity, and emphasises the recommendation in the above paragraph, in order to prevent the weak and helpless being crowded out. Notified Illnesses. In considering the deaths from the more important Zymotic Diseases, we should associate the cases of sickness made known to us through the operation of the Notification Act. The table given on page 11 of the numbers, nature and locality of such illnesses is prepared by direction of the Local Government Board, and it also indicates the numbers of such cases treated at the Isolation Hospital. In all there were reported to me during the last year, by the medical men practising within the Borough, 677 cases of an infectious character coming under the Notification Act. These figures include 178 scarlatina, 167 diphtheria, 244 typhoid, 45 continued, 1 puerperal, and 42 erysipelas. Of these there were removed to the Isolation Hospital 72 scarlatina, 64 diphtheria, and 63 typhoid. These figures indicate a con- siderable diminution as compared with the previous year, in respect to the scarlatina, but a large increase in respect to