[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Droxford R.D.C.

  • Droxford (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1919
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Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Droxford R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tham, and the other, Laura Scholes, No. 2, Marks’ Terrace, Bishop’s Waltham, I could not trace the origin in either case; two cases notified in November, one case, Reggie Watson, Albany Road, Bishop’s Waltham, could not trace origin, and the other case, Florence Tilbury, No. 9, Claylands Road, Bishop’s Waltham, contracted from her brother, notified last month ; five cases notified in December, two cases (in the same family), Winifred and Joyce Knight, at Forest Road, Swanmore, could not trace origin, and three cases (in the same family), Violet, May, and Bettie Silvester, at Gravel Hill, Swanmore, contracted the disease at Ropley, in neighbouring District. There were ten cases in all notified during the year, they wTere all visited, isolated, supplied with disinfectants, and rooms, bedding, &c., disinfected afterwards. Mumps.—Two cases, in May, at Shedfield, and one case, in October, at Bishop’s Waltham. The families affected were excluded from school. Diphtheria.—One case notified in February at Westmeon, sink drain and cesspool unventilated, five contacts were swabbed and injected with antitoxin, all the swabs w’ere negative, the woman died, and the rooms, bedding, &c., were disinfected, instructions were given to the husband to ventilate drain and cesspool; one case notified in April at Westmeon, in the same family as case notified in February, owing to the difficulty in obtaining labour, the man had been unable to get the sink drain and cesspool ventilated, it has since been done; one case notified in May at Westmeon, woman came from London to stay at Westmeon, and had a sore throat when she arrived; five cases notified in December, one case at Basingw^ell Street, Bishop's Waltham, sink pipe directly connected into drain, had pipe dis- connected ; and four cases in the same family at Bunker’s Hill, Denmead, could not trace origin. There were eight cases in all notified during the year, they were all isolated in their own