[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.

Date:: 1910

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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Filey Urban.—The Medical Officer of Health recom¬ mends that Tuberculosis, Measles, and Whooping Cough should be added to the list of notifiable diseases. Hessle Urban.—The Medical Officer of Health recom¬ mends that Glanders, Anthrax, and Hydrophobia be added to the list of notifiable diseases. SMALL-POX. No cases of this disease were notified during 1910. Bridlington Borough and Bridlington Rural. — The Medical Officers of Health for Bridlington Borough and the Bridlington Rural District quote the returns relating to vaccination in the Bridlington Union for the years 1898 to 1909. These returns show that :— In 1898 there were 348 births registered; 222 of these were successfully vaccinated and 3 cases were excused as conscientious objectors. In 1909 there were 342 births registered; 110 of these were successfully vaccinated and 164 were excused as conscientious objectors. Dr. Wetwan adds, “ From these figures it is quite clear that we have now reached the stage when consider¬ able more children are left unvaccinated than are protected against Small-Pox, and that in a very few years we shall have become an unprotected community. “ Conscientious objection,” strictly speaking, has very little to do with it. Nine out of ten people who have obtained exemption certificates for their children to whom I speak on the subject have no definite ideas on it beyond that several others have ‘ not had their’s done,’ so why should they bother. Of course if it were necessary, and Small-Pox came round they would ‘ at once have the child vaccinated,’ and so on.” SCARLET FEVER. There were 506 cases notified and 9 deaths. Among the persons attacked at least 98 per cent, recovered.