Dr. Airy's report to the Local Government Board on an outbreak of diphtheria in 1889 in the Samford rural sanitary district (Suffolk) / [Hubert Airy].

  • Airy, Hubert, 1838-1903.
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[1890]
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Credit: Dr. Airy's report to the Local Government Board on an outbreak of diphtheria in 1889 in the Samford rural sanitary district (Suffolk) / [Hubert Airy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ Deaths from Diphtheria registered in the two sub-districts of the Samford Distkict and in Ipswich, 1870-1889. Year and Quarter. 1870. I. II. III. IV. 1871. I. II. III. IV. 1872. I. II. III. IV. 1873. I. II. III. IV. 1874. I. II. III. IV. 1875. I. II. III. IV. 1876. I. II. III. IV. 1877. I. II. III. IV. 1878. I. II. III. IV. 1879. I. II. III. IV. Capel. Holbrook. Ipswich. Year and Quarter. Capel. Holbrook. — _ 2 1880. I. — — — II. — — I III. - _ — 1 — IV. - — — — 1881. I. _ — — — IT. - — — — III. — — — IV. — - — — 1 1882. I. _ 1 — 1 — II. _ — — 1 III. . 2 — 1 IV. ... - — — — 1883. I. - - . — 2 II. ... _____ 1 1 — ii r. _ — — 1 IV. _ _ — — 1 1884. I. - . — — 4 II. .- . — — 3 III. 1 . — — 5 IV. - — — I 1885. I. 1 r — — — II. _ . - : —— — — III. 1 —— — — IV. _ _ — — 3 1886. I. _ — — 2 II. ... — — — 1 III. 1 — 4 IV. _ ——__m — — 1 1887. I. 2 — 2 2 II. _ — — 2 III. ... _ — 1 5 IV. _ _ — — — 1888. I. - _ 2 — — II. — — — III. _ — — 3 IYr. ■ — — 2 1889. I. — — 1 II. —— 4 1 — 1 III. 6 ~ 1 1 IV. ' 5 Ipswich. 4 4 2 1 2 1 5 1 2 1 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 4 1 1 1 3 6 i 4 18 In the course of the inquiry it came to light that there had been a case of diphtheric sore throat m March 1889 in the person of a farmer living at a roadside farmhouse at _the_wea.t_end.i3f_Chelmondiston parish. There was an untrapped sink-pipe m the kitchen, leading to a filthy catch-pit wi*h an overflow to a cesspool. Adjoining the kitchen was a small dairy The dairy produce, I understood, was disposed of in Ipswich, not in Chelmondiston There was no evidence to connect this case with the outbreak in June (but see footnote on 'previous page). v . ,TIj.ore wajLn0 eTlc*ence had played any part in the spread of the infection. The villagers get very little milk. The little that was used in Oneimondiston came from various sources. I.did not hear of any epizootic disease having been observed in the district during the course of the epidemic. The sanitary state of the dwellings in which diphtheria appeared was not con¬ spicuously bad, though some of them had offensive privies and pigsties, and others (e.g., B. Bullards cottage at Tattingstone) had polluted water. Ao-ood deal had been done, or was being done, at the time of my visit, for the&im¬ provement of these places. Properly constructed privies with small cemented pits were erected in place of old ones condemned; a new well was sunk at Bullard s cottage, on the other side of the house, and a new supply of water was brought in pipes from a spring to a cluster of cottages in Pin Mill. The sanitary authority have byelaws (dated August 1879),Regulating the deposit of filth on land for purposes of agriculture; but they have no power under these byelaws, nr under the Public Health Act, 1076i to regulate the