[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough.

Eastbourne (England). County Borough Council.

Date:: 1896

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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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In 1892, 56*9 per cent, of the cases. In 1893, 64*5 In 1894, 72-9 In 1895, 72-5 „ „ In 1896, 70*0 The percentage of cases removed in 1895 and 1896 of each disease were as follows :— Disease. Num cases r ber of lotified. Nur rem< nber rved. Percen Rem tage of ovals. 1896 1895 1896 1895 1896 1895 Scarlet Fever 74 59 74 56 ioo-o 94’9 Diphtheria 42 36 18 18 42-8 5o-o Enteric Fever 84 18 48 8 57'i 44’4 The one case of small pox that was imported was at once isolated at Langney Hospital. In the above three diseases, the fatality of the cases which were removed to the Sanatorium was 4*6 per cent. ; of the remaining cases, i.e., those not removed to the Sanatorium, the fatality was 15*0 per cent. In 1895 the fatality for these diseases was 4'7 per cent, in the Sanatorium cases, and 17*2 per cent, in the remaining cases. The difference is due very much to the nursing, food, and care received at the Borough Hospital by the poor, who cannot obtain the same at home. The medical treatment is the same in or out, as patients at the Hospital are at liberty to have their own medical attendants if they wish, The advance of education and the improvement in Isolation Hospitals combine to cause the old prejudices against sending friends and relatives to such institutions to be gradually dis- appearing.