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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    fresh case had been notified. The following Table B. shows its incidence on the parish :— Table B.—Showing the Diphtheria Cases in Holywell Urban District in October and November 1896. If a Child—at Date. Name. Age. Residence. Result. what School, if Remarks. any. 1896. Jan. 15 - Harriet H. 22 High Street Re¬ covered. “ A suspicious case.” Aug. 29 - Annie G. T. 10 Bryn Offa 99 Halkin Street - “ Very doubtful.” No ae- quelae. Oct. 19 - Annie D. 4 Summerhill Died - Spring Gardens First undoubted case. » 21 - Gwendolen L. - 3 i Whiteford Street Re¬ covered. 99 99 -* „ 21 - Lilly P. Brynford Street 99 99 99 — „ 28 , Margaret Wc - 2- 2 Lower Gardens 99 —— -- Place. „ 29 - >. 29 - James Ws John Ws 15 5 Penybrvn » j- Spring Gardens One family. 30 - Henry B. 4 Brynford Street 99 99 99 ]■ One family. Nov. 4 John B. - 14 Halkin Street - „ 6 - „ 7 - Sarah Jane Ws Benjamin Ws - 20 15 Penybryn 99 99 99 }- - ' One family. Administration by Holywell Urban District Council with regard to Diphtheria. The epidemic having been largely associated with the Spring Gardens Board School, this school was ordered to be closed. The school well has been condemned altogether, and the opening will be bricked up. Disinfec¬ tants, which apparently consisted chiefly of chloride of lime, were supplied ad libitum to the tenants of invaded dwellings, and used by them for scattering about on the ground, putting down drains and into privies, &c. There is no hospital for the treatment of cases of infectious disease. I was unable to hear of any disinfection or of destruction of clothing. The urban district does not possess any means whatever of properly carrying out disinfection. HOLYWELL BUBAL PABISH. General Description. This parish (the population of which in 1891 was 6,453) consists of a strip of flat marshy land bordering the Dee estuary, and of a higher tract on the sloj>es and plateau of the hills which rise steeply immediately to the south. The most important portion of this strip is situated along the southern hank of the Dee estuary from between the Borough of Eliut and Morfa. Here, the main Chester to Bangor road runs, roughly speaking, from S.E. to N.W. parallel to the North-Western 'Bailway embankment; on this road is situated Bagillt, a long straggling collection of small houses and cottages. Erom the Holywell railway station another road, at right angles to the Bangor Boad, ascends the valley to Holywell, some two miles to the south. Beginning near the station and extending along this road nearly to the level of St. Winifred’s Well is another straggling series of small houses and cottages, chiefly in rows, forming the village of Greenfield. There is a small collection of houses known as Holloway, situate at a high level about If miles from Holywell town along a road leading towards St. Asaph. Save for these villages, the population of the remainder of the parish is sparse. Bagillt and Greenfield are by far the most important and populous places in this parish, and are, as Dr. Parsons remarks in his report, of “ an urban rather than a rural character, though lacking the “ advantages of an urban administration.” The soil of the low-lying portion of the parish along the bank of the Dee is alluvial, but the rest of the