[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, New Windsor Borough.

Windsor (Berkshire, England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1894

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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, New Windsor Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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latter disease, ten cases were notified. They were sporadic, and, with one exception, unconnected with one another, and of unknown origin. During the four years since the Notification Act came into operation in Windsor, scarlet fever has invaded eighty-two houses. In ten instances, only, has a second case appeared in the same house after the notification of the first, and once only after the house had been disinfected. The record would not, probably, have been much better if we had been provided with an isolation hospital. Whooping cough was mildly epidemic during the Whooping last quarter of the year, but caused only one death. Cough. Of enteric fever, six cases were reported, of which Enteric » three were fatal. Of these cases, three occurred in Fever, the Barracks, and of the others the cause could not be discovered. Influenza was epidemic at the beginning of the Influenza, year, and reappeared—for the sixth time in as many years—at the close of it. But one death, however, was attributed to the disease, and it seems to be a general rule that in persons (and they are, I suppose, now the great majority) who have suffered former attacks, the disease tends to assume a less acute form. Creditable progress has been made in the sup¬ pression of the more prevalent sanitary offences. For instance, since it was determined that the presence of water-closets without water-supply should no longer be tolerated, 440 of them have been provided with proper flushing apparatus, and nuisances of this class will soon have disappeared. Of the shallow wells, to the danger of which I have yearly called attention, forty-one have been during the year replaced by a supply of water from