Dr. S. Monckton Copeman's report to the Local Government Board on prevalence of measles, enteric fever and diphtheria in the borough of Lowestoft, and on general sanitary administration in that town / [S. Monckton Copeman].

  • Copeman, S. Monckton (Sydney Monckton), 1862-
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1896
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Credit: Dr. S. Monckton Copeman's report to the Local Government Board on prevalence of measles, enteric fever and diphtheria in the borough of Lowestoft, and on general sanitary administration in that town / [S. Monckton Copeman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OFFICIAL COPY. Dr. S. Monckton Copeman’s Report to the Local Govern¬ ment Board on prevalence of Measles, Enteric Fever, and Diphtheria in the Borough of Lowestoft, and on General Sanitary Administration in that Town. j . v , V . R. Thorne Thorne, Medical Officer, July 30tli, 189G. e> 7 The Board learnt through the Registrar-General’s Returns for the last quarter of the year 1895 that during that period fifty-seven deaths had occurred from measles and eight from diphtheria in the Lowestoft Registra¬ tion sub-district of which the Borough of Lowestoft forms by far the greater part. In February of the present year also, the Board learnt in ordinary course of the occurrence during the last ten days of 1895 and in the month of January 1896 of sixteen cases of enteric fever in the Borough of which six were notified in December and ten in January. Under these circumstances I received instructions from the Board to visit the town and to make inquiry into the sanitary administration of the Borough with special reference to the recent prevalence there of different forms of zymotic disease. I.—GENERAL SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES. Lowestoft is a town situate on the sea-coast at the extreme north-east of the county of Suffolk, on either side of an artificial cutting connecting the River Waveney with the sea, and which forms what are known as the inner and outer harbours. The Borough covers an area of 2,306 acres; its rateable value is 97,885/., and its estimated population is 27,162. The trade of the town is chiefly concerned with fishing and other cognate industries. The town is divided by the river and harbours into two distinct portions. That on the north bank is known as the old town, that to the south of the river, which includes Kirkley and Rakefield, being for the most part of very recent growth. From the level of the river the ground to the north slopes somewhat rapidly upwards, some parts of the old town being therefore at a considerable height above the sea level. There are, however, a number of houses built on the Denes, at the foot of the cliff, and consequently at so slight an elevation above the sea, that it is practically impossible to connect them with the sewerage system. The town, south of the river, is built on a plateau of sand, which, at the southern limit of the Borough, gradually rises towards the 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 ; JOHN MENZIES & Co., 12, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, and 90, West Nile Street, Glasgow; or HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., Limited, 104, Grafton Street, Dublin. ft ^llcqmb library No. 106.. 1896. Price Sixpence. £ General Collections |L___ +P