Dr. R. Deane Sweeting's report to the Local Government Board upon a re-inspection of Ilkeston Borough : with especial reference to the use of the hospital for infectious diseases there.

  • Sweeting, R. Deane.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Dr. R. Deane Sweeting's report to the Local Government Board upon a re-inspection of Ilkeston Borough : with especial reference to the use of the hospital for infectious diseases there. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. R. Deane Sweeting’s Report to the Local Government Board upon a re-inspection of Ilkeston Borough, with especial refer- ence to the use of the hospital for infectious diseases there. Arthur Newsholme, Medical Officer, 8th February, 1911. This inquiry was ordered after the receipt by the Board of the annual report of the medical officer of health for 1909, and after correspondence with the Ilkeston Town Council, subsequent to the receipt of the annual report for 1908. A further, and important, object of the inquiry was to ascertain the suitability or otherwise of the present infectious diseases hospital of the- borough, in view of the town council’s request that section 67 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act of 1907 should be put in force in the borough. Ilkeston Borough has been several times inspected by officers of the central health authority. Thus, Dr. (afterwards Sir George) Buchanan inspected the place in 1870, when he found that enteric fever was associated with “ widely diffused excremental pollution ” of,air and water. It was also inspected by the late Dr. Blaxall in 1881, on account of enteric fever, which he ascribed to infected sewer air escaping in and about dwellings, and to infected privies and polluted water: in 1893 by Dr. Wheaton, in connection with the Inland Sanitary survey, when, inter alia, he found the hospital very defective : and again in 1899 by the same inspector, who ascribed the prevalence of enteric fever to general pollution of the water supply of the town, which was derived from the Nutbrook, and imperfectly filtered. Dr. Wheaton found that the water of the Nutbrook was grossly polluted by liquid refuse from dwellings at Heanor and by the effluent from Heanor sewage farm. The area of the borough is 2,526 acres. The population increased from 19,744 at the 1891 Census to 25,384 at that of 1901, and the number of inhabited houses increased from 3,776 to 5,005 LONDON: PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased, either directly or through any Bookseller, from WYMAN & SONS, Limited, Fetter Lane, E.C. ; or OLIVER AND BOYD, Tweeddale Court, Edinburgh; or E. PONSONBY, Ltd., 116, Grafton Street, Dublin, PRINTED BY DARLING AND SON, Limited, Bacon Street, E. 1911. No. 50.