[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following Authorities have not yet made provision for the Isolation of Infectious Diseases:— Urban.—Hinderwell, Kirklington and Upsland, Malton, Pickering. Rural.—Easingwold, Helmsley, Kirbymoorside, Leyburn, Malton, Pickering, Reeth, Richmond. SPECIAL REPORTS. Date. Medical Officer. District. Subject. May 6th June 9th June 11th August 16 th September 25th October 30th Dr. Scott Dr. Fawcett Dr. Eddison Dr. Stainthorpe ... Dr. Want Dr. Laverick Pickering Rural Middlesbrough Rural Bedale Guisborough Urban Reeth Whitby Rural Measles Whooping Cough Scarlet Fever W ater Scarlet Fever Measles, Diphtheria Scarlet Fever occurred in 86 Districts, 1,137 cases being reported with 86 deaths.^ The attack rate per thousand of the population being 4,08, the death rate per thousand 0 12, and the death rate of persons attacked 3-16 per cent. Two cases in the Reeth District, one imported, and as the other occurred in the Head Teacher’s house the school was closed. Sixteen in the Whitby Urban District, all removed to hospital. Two hundred and twenty-three in the Ormesby District, thirty-eight removed to hospital, four deaths, the epidemic commenced in August, 1912. Dr. Jackson writes, « The Ormesby District is not provided with a Fever Hospital of their own, and it das “ been the practice for many years only to remove to hospital patients from business “premises and houses where a separate room could not be provided for isolation. Uni “ this year this method had worked fairly satisfactorily from a public health standpoint, “ although the ideal method would be to isolate in hospital all cases from a working-class “population. Many medical men are opposed to the present-day principle of her mg “ together in one ward or block large numbers of patients with diseases of a septic order. “ It is not many years ago that general hospitals did the same thing, and with the same “ (for the patients) harmful consequences.” Twelve cases in the Malton Rural District, one death. One case at Stapleton in the Croft Rural District. Fifty-two in the Eaton District, thirty-nine removed to hospital, one death. Six cases m the Leyburn District. Twenty-emht in the Northallerton Urban District, all of a mild type, twenty-four removed to hospital. One in the Wath District. Five in the Middlesbrough Rural District, two removed to hospital. Eighteen in the Flaxton District, nine removed to hospital, eleven occurred at Haxby, school closed. Sixteen cases in the Pickering Rural District, school at Newton closed. Fifty in the Northallerton Rural District, twenty-two removed to hospital, one death, Brompton school closed. Three mild cases in the Malton Urban District. Three in the Masham District. Five in the Pickering Urban District, one death. ^ bixty- nine at Thornaby-on-Tees, seventeen removed to hospital, five deaths. One hundred an thirty-three in the Guisborough Rural District, of which eighty-two occurred in New Marske, twenty-four in Marske, and twenty-two in the parish of Easington, New Marske school closed, eight deaths. Twenty-eight cases in the Guisborough Urban District, thirteen removed to hospital. Seventy in the Loftus District, thirty-five being in eig teen houses at Loftus, twenty-one in fifteen houses at Liverton Mines, ten in nine houses at Carlin How, and four in four houses at Skinningrove. Eighty-six m the Redcar District, forty-eight removed to hospital, six deaths. Thirty-seven in the Saltburn District, school closed, one death. Sixty-five in the Skelton and Brotton District, one removed to hospital. Eio-ht in the Startforth District, four removed to hospital._ One in the Aysgarth District. Eighteen in the Stokesley District, twelve removed to hospital, one death, nine of the cases were members of one family at Nunthorpe. Five in the Easingwold District. One in the Helmsley District, and one in the Oswaldkirk Division of tiie Helmsley District. Thirty-six in the Thirsk District, eight being in one house, eighteen removed to hospital. Five in the Kirbymoorside District. Seventeen in the Richmond Rural District seven bein'* in one house at Tunstall, one death. Ten in the Richmond Urban District, all removed to hospital, six of the cases occurred in a family who had just previously removed into the town from the neighbourhood of Thirsk, one of the members having recen y been discharged from an Isolation Hospital when she had been treated for the disease. Eio-ht in the Scarborough Rural District, school at Hackness closed. Sixty-one in the South Bank in Normanby District, one death, Dr. (Tien writes, “ The question of proper “isolation apart from hospital treatment is one difficult to solve. Fortunately many of “ the cases of both Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria are slight. As a result of this the “ patients after the first few days—sometimes not more than two or three—feel well and “will not lie up, but will insist on having the run of the house. ■*; . fs . n “ noticed in years gone by that it is the newer parts that have the most cases of infectious “ disease. It is the same during the last year, comparatively few of the newer streets “ have escaped having one or more cases occurring in them. It is to be noticed “ that only two streets in the oldest part of the town had each three cases. lwenty- ve cases in the Hinderwell District, one death. Six in the Whitby Rural District, one death. Six in the Bedale District, three removed to hospital.