[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontypool Local Board / U.D.C.

  • Pontypool (Wales). Local Board.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontypool Local Board / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of age. It is usually chill that causes these diseases in tender years ; sometimes it is secondary to other diseases, but it is a very fatal malady, almost as much so as infantile diarrhoea. It is very prevalent in these districts, and began in yours in November with a great number of cases. The houses of the working classes are ill fitted for nursing these diseases, and I often wish we had a children’s hospital here, as they do so much better in institu- tions with skilled nursing and plenty of pure air. Influenza. This disease appears every few weeks and assumes various types. During October and November the chief symptoms were abdominal. There has been no very special epidemic of it in the past year, but to persons subject to its influence it has shewn itself repeatedly. Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute of Nurses. Most excellent work continues to be done by the ladies in charge of this very important duty. In your district alone Miss Dale attended 102 cases and paid 2,191 visits during the year. The district nurse can, and often does, use her influence for good in domestic sanitation, and also by bringing before the notice of the sanitary officials insanitary dwellings. The Food and Meat Supply. No complaint has reached me respecting either of the above, and I am under the impression that your district is well served in the matter of food. The Slaughter Houses. These are kept constantly under observation and carcases examined. I have repeatedly asked the Council to consider the need of a public slaughter house, and I hope it will not be long before some well placed building will be erected so as to do away with the several slaughter houses in the dis- trict, which are in every way unsuitable and often a nuisance by their contiguity to houses. The Factories and Workshops. These have been regularly inspected, and sug- gestions for cleaning and white-washing have been carried out willingly by the owners. They consist of the following trades :— Bakehouses 10 Dressmaking ... S Millinery 7 Tailoring 9 Bootmaking 4 Saddlers 3 Smiths 4 Wheelwright and Joinery 4 Plumbers .. 4 Fish Cleaners 1 54