Mr. Spear's report to the Local Government Board upon the prevalence of diphtheria in the Penistone registration sub-district, and upon certain occurrences therein of enteric fever.

  • Spear, John.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Mr. Spear's report to the Local Government Board upon the prevalence of diphtheria in the Penistone registration sub-district, and upon certain occurrences therein of enteric fever. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OFFICIAL COPY. Mr. Spear’s Report to the Local Government Board upon the Prevalence of Diphtheria in the Penistone Regis¬ tration Sub-District, and upon certain Occurrences therein of Enteric Fever. E. Thorne Thorne, Assistant Medical Officer, September 6tb, 1889. The Penistone Eegistration Sub-District is an extensive area of nearly 22,000 acres in the West Eiding of Yorkshire. The surface is hilly and broken, and the Eiver Don, a rapid stream, receiving on either side several small rivulets, traverses it from west to east, flowing towards Sheffield. Geologically, the district stands on the sandstone of the lower and middle coal measures, or on the rubble, clay, or shale which overlie, generally for a depth of some 3 to 8 feet, that formation. It comprises two populous centres—Penistone and Thurlstone, situated in close proximity to each other on or near the banks of the Don towards the centre of the district. Here the population is engaged in steel and iron working, coal mining, some quarrying, shop-keeping, and agriculture. Elsewhere, except for a small locality in the Stocksbridge Urban Sanitary District, industries are almost exclusively agricultural. The sanitary divisions of the district, their area and population, are as follows :— Penistone Urban, area in acres, 1,133; population (estimated) 2,500. Thurlstone Urban, area in acres, 8,117 ; population (estimated) 3,000. Hoylandswaine Urban, area in acres, 2,024; population (estimated) 800. G-unthwaite and Ingbirchworth Urban, area in acres, 2,057 ; population (estimated) 405. Stocksbridge Urban (part of), area in acres, 1,040; population (esti¬ mated) 1,000. Penistone Eural (part of), area in acres, 7,544; population (estimated) 1,200. I.—The Occurrence of Diphtheria. The epidemic spread of diphtheria was confined to the two first-named and most populous districts. Except for Hunshelf, in the Stocksbridge Urban District, where some half-dozen cases occurred in June 1888, the remaining districts were entirely free from the disease; and as to the little outbreak at Hunshelf I could discover no connexion between it and the epidemic by ' LONDON: PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE. BY EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. And to be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from EYRE and SPOTTISWOODE, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, E.C.; or ADAM and CHARLES BLACK, 6, North Bridge, Edinburgh; or HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., 104, Grafton Street, Dublin. 1889. No. 46. Price Sixpence. o 59297. 250.—9/89. Wt. 6082.