[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Eaton Bray R.D.C.

Eaton Bray (England). Rural District Council.

Date:: 1915

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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Eaton Bray R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Five were fatal and eight removed to the Joint Isolation Hospital at Dunstable. The District Council provides antitoxin for cases occurring in their area. Scarlet Fever. Four cases were members of one family in Tebworth, all notified on April 22nd. The mother was peeling at that time, and appeared to have had a slight rash three weeks previously, but had not had a doctor. All these were very slight cases and treated at home. A child from Stanbridge was notified on November 29th, and at once removed to hospital. On December 6th the sister commenced to be ill with the complaint, and was also isolated in the hospital. This disease is much more infectious in the early stage than after peeling has commenced, and quite opposed to the view formerly held. In all, four cases of scarlet fever were removed to the Isolation Hospital. No deaths were registered from this com- plaint. Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis). One of the three cases reported was probably imported, the patient only having lived in the district three months. Two occupied separate bedrooms. One gave a history of phthisis in other members of the family. Two were treated in the Great Baddow Sanatorium. One death was recorded. No case of Tuberculosis in any other form was reported during the year. Rooms are disinfected after deaths from Tuberculosis.