[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough.

  • Tunbridge Wells (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sanatorium having done excellent work in affording isolation for 80 cases where otherwise isolation was impossible. Erysipelas was the cause of one death. Continued Fever was the cause of one death. Two cases of this disease were imported, one from Ludlow, the other from Marl¬ borough. Typhoid .—The Borough has at no time given us more than an occasional case of Typhoid. Diphtheria was again very prevalent throughout the country, and in this Borough it caused five deaths. Most of the cas ;s notified were of a mild type. The mortality from this disease in London and the country was very high. Diarrhoea and Dysentery caused no death, and our immunity from mortality under this head is one of the strongest evidences of our freedom from the evils of ill drainage and insanitary house arrangements, which it would be possible for me to adduce. Smallpox, as usual, caused no death. A case was discovered in January among the out-patients of the General Hospital with the eruption well developed. The patient was a servant girl, only arrived from Ore near Hastings, one week before. She was immediately isolated and removed to the Sanatorium. Three other persons residing in the house with the girl Avere infected, and upon notification were immediately removed. Nearly all the out-patients in the wait¬ ing room where the girl had been sitting were vaccinated. None were infected. Measles caused no death during the year, and there were very few cases of the disease. Whooping Cough was the cause of two deaths by complica¬ tions. Croup, of the membranous variety, was the cause of only one death. Notifications of Infectious Diseases.—The following cases of