[Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • North Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1906
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Credit: [Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, North Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ common, there is much more communication between families than in a rural district “ where there is not the same opportunity of frequent visits, or in an urban district with “ a mixed population. It will be readily understood that in the first-named class of “ district the spread of fever due to the visits of neighbours to infected houses or of the “ infected to neighbours’ houses will be greater than in the other named districts. “ Another factor in the rate variation is house accommodation. In very few of the “ dwellings of the industrial classes is it possible to carry out such isolation as is “ requisite to check the spread of infection. A third factor influencing the variation in “ the attack rate is the extent to which the residents of a town are open to receive “ infection either by contact with infected persons outside the district or by contact “ with such persons coming into it. The very large number of persons living in Redcar “ whose place of business is outside its area, and the still larger number who visit it in “ the season, renders this town specially susceptible to the contraction of infectious “ diseases. Compare such a place with a village some distance from a railway station, “ and the variation in the attack rate from Scarlet Fever and other similar infectious “diseases is easily appreciated.” Thirteen cases in ten houses at Saltburn, no deaths. Thirty-four in twenty-nine houses in the Skelton and Brotton District, no deaths, two of the cases occurred at Carlin How, nineteen atBrotton, three at Lingdale, one at New Skelton, one at North Skelton, two at Skelton, three at Skelton Green, one atMargroveParkaud two in detached houses. One case in the Reeth District. Forty-four in thirty-one houses at Whitby, eight being in one house, thirty-three removed to Hospital, no deaths, two cases were of mixed infection having a scarlet fever rash followed by diphtheritic paralysis and one developed chicken pox. Twelve cases at Malton, no deaths, and one at Kirklington. One at Masham and two at Ilton in the Masham District, one in the Startforth District, and three in the Middlesbrough Rural District, removed to Hospital, no deaths. Ten in the Northallerton Rural District, three imported, one death, one of the cases occurred at Deighton, two at East Cowton, two at Hutton Bonville, one at Little Smeaton, one at Great Smeaton, and three at Danby Wiske. One hundred and twelve cases in the Eston District, sixty-six removed to Hospital, two deaths, Dr. Fulton, writes, “ This disease was “ very prevalent and continues to spread in every part of your district, due no doubt to “ the mildness of the disease, want of care by parents, and cases being overlooked, missed “ by parents and doctor. Two deaths occurred. Children who have sore throats and are “sick (vomit) should be sent home from school, and a note sent to the doctor.” Five in the Scalbv District, and one hundred and sixty-one at Ormesby, eleven removed to Hospital, four deaths, schools closed, twelve houses had two cases each, ten three cases each, and two five cases each, Dr. Jackson, writes, “ I am clearly of opinion that the chief sources “of infection were the mild or unrecognized cases which were never notified, or notified “ very late in the course of the illness. There has been for some years past ‘ considerable difficulty experienced in dealing with certain infectious cases arising in the “ North Ormesby Hospital and Orphanage. Parish cases, and those belonging to the “ District, can be removed to the Sanatorium without much trouble, as for the remainder “no authority seems inclined to be responsible. In consequence of this difficulty I “ communicated with the Council of the North Ormesby Hospital, and suggested that a “ detached Cottage, which they have within their grounds, should be altered and fitted up “ as a small Isolation Hospital. The Council consented to do this. A patient was “ brought from Skelton to the North Ormesby Hospital suffering from Scarlet Fever. “ The Hospital Authorities not being able to isolate the girl, she was sent back home in “ an Ambulance. In two, or if not three cases in North Ormesby, the infection was “traced to this case.” Four cases, one imported, at Northallerton, no deaths, and sixty at Pickering, one death, the fever was prevalent during the whole of the year with the exception of the months of February and April. One in the Helmsley District, and ten in the Oswaldkirk Division of the Helmsley District, no deaths. Eleven cases in the Pickering Rural District, seven being at Ebberston, one death. Thirty-seven in the Stokesley District, fifteen removed to Hospital, no deaths, eleven of the cases occurred at Ivildale, seven at Nunthorpe, four at Great Ayton, four at Great Broughton, three at Bilsdale, three at Little Ayton, two at Yarm, and one each at Picton, High Worsall, and Kirkby, schools closed at Nunthorpe and Ivildale. Eighteen in the Malton Rural District, chiefly in Sheriff Hutton and Hovingham, no deaths. Sixty-seven in the South Bank in Nonnanby District, one removed to Hospital, one death, Dr. Glen, writes, “As usual thegreat “ difficulty experienced in dealing with these mild cases treated at home, is getting the patients “ completely isolated for a sufficient length of time. The patients after two or three days, feel “well and then they want to get the run of the house as usual, and not only so, but in fine “ weather get out unless they are most carefully watched.” Five in the Flaxton District probably imported, two removed to Hospital, and fourteen in the Whitby Rural District, no deaths. One hundred and fifteen cases at Thornaby-on-Tees, eighteen removed to Hospital, three deaths. Twenty-four in the Ivirbymoorside District, three being at Kirby- moorside, nine at Nunnington, schools closed, five at Ness, one at Muscoates, and six at Salton, school closed, no deaths. Thirteen in the Easingwold District, no deaths, and eighteen in the Aysgarth District, no deaths, the last five cases were isolated in a hut erected at the expense of Dr. Hime, Cross Lane and Aysgarth Schools closed. Forty-six in the Thirsk District, Thornton-le-Moor School closed, one death, seven of the cases at Thirsk were contracted in the “ Shows ” at the time of the Martinmas Hirings. Seven in the Bedale District, one being at Langthorne contracted outside the district, two at Leeming Bar, two in Low Street, one at Fencote, and one at Scruton, no deaths. Eleven in the Scarborough Rural District, no deaths, Dr. Candler-Hope, writes, “ The whole “question of closing schools on account of infectious disease has been raised more than “ once lately, and it has been contended that under no circumstances is it any use to close “ a school in the hope of checking the spread of such cases. Statistics have been com- “ piled to show that where an attack has begun before, and continued over a holiday, as