Dr. F. St. George Mivart's report to the Local Government Board on the prevalence of diphtheria in Holywell parishes, and on the sanitary state of those localities / [F. St. George Mivart].

  • Mivart, F. St. George.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Dr. F. St. George Mivart's report to the Local Government Board on the prevalence of diphtheria in Holywell parishes, and on the sanitary state of those localities / [F. St. George Mivart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OFFICIAL COPY. Dr. F. St. George Mivart’s Report to the Local Government Board on the Prevalence of Diphtheria in Holywell Parishes, and on the Sanitary State of those Localities. R. Thorne Thorne, Medical Officer, May 14th, 1897. The Board having become aware through the Registrar-General’s returns that during the quarter ending September 30, 1896, 13 deaths from diph¬ theria had occurred in the rural parish of Holywell, I was instructed to inquire into the circumstances associated with tbe prevalence of this illness, and accordingly repaired thither at the end of November 1890. There are probably few districts in England or Wales of which the sanitary condition has occupied the attention of the Local Government Board more frequently, or with less satisfactory result, than the tract of flat marshy land extending along the south bank of the Dee estuary from Chester to the Point of Air. In consequence of the prevalence of epidemic illnesses during the past 25 years repeated inspections of the various districts, parishes, and town¬ ships hereabouts have from time to time been made. Thus, in 1871, Mr. Pow er visited the sub-district of Whit ford owing to the prevalence of scarlatina and diphtheria. In 1875 Dr. Blaxall examined into the sanitary state of the whole Registration District of Holywell. In 1882 Dr. Parsons made a report to the Board on the sanitary condition of Holywell Urban and Rural Districts, and in 1886 on an epidemic of diphtheria in the last-named district, at Llanasa. In 1890 Mr. Spear reported on a prevalence of typhoid fever at Ncrtliop in the same district. Still more recently Dr. Reece investigated a very serious outbreak of diphtheria in the Borough of Flint in October 1895. Moreover, in addition to these various O •• ••• inspections and reports, this region was visited, in connexion with the Cholera Surveys in 1885 and 1895, by Dr. D. S. Davies and Mr. Evan Evans respectively. And at the beginning of the present year, Dr. Bruce Low, in his report on the sewage pollution of the River Dee and its tributary streams, dealt with a large portion of the area which is the subject of the present report. 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.O.; e*- JOHN MENZIES & Co., 12, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, and 90, West Nile Street, Glasgow; or HODGES, FIGGJS, & Co., Limited, 101, Grafton Street, 1897. Price Pour pence. Goblin.. W!SLLCOo‘.& LIBRARY I General Collections +P No. 116. +P