[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Buxton Borough.

  • Buxton (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Buxton Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SAMTARY CIRCUMSTANGj^S OF THE AiS^A, feter Supply; The water supplies of the Borough are mainly upland surface water. The supplies are tested chemically and hacteriologically at least once a month and daily examinations are conducted for pH and residual chlorine. The Borough is served hy three main impounding reservoirs - Stanley Moor, Lightwood and Burbage - which have upland moorland gathering grounds. Subsidiary supplies are obtained from the carboniferous limestone bore hole at Stanley Moor and the millstone grit bore hole at Portobello. Treatment of all supplies is carried out at Stanley Moor and Lightv/ood filter stations, each of vdiich has a complete filtration, chemical dosing and chlorination system. High level areas on Brown Edge Road and Manchester Road are served from a covered surface reservoir at Cold Springs. Other high level areas at Ladrnanlov/ and Harpur Hill are supplied from a second service reservoir at Terret. A further covered reservoir of one million gallons capacity is situated at Corbar and acts as a balancing tank to the Lightwood und Stanley Moor supplies. All other reservoirs and supplies previously used have now been cut off. The waters at Stanley Moor and Lightwood have definite plumbo solvent action, but these are carefully observed and due precautions taken to minimize the plumbo-solvency. ilienever any sample of v;ater is found to be unsatisfactory, further sam^pling is carried out and hacteriologically pure water is secured by means of Chlorination. POOD Pood Poisoning Outbreaks There was no case of food poisoning during the year. PRBVALMHCn OP. AMD CONTROL OVER, lilPECTIOUS AHD OTHER DISEASE - GENERAL During the year Infective Hepatitis continued to occur, but the number of cases were fem^er and more sporadic and there were no deaths from this cause, Yifhile supplies v/ere available, gamma globulin vms administered to family contacts with encouraging results, though the series was too small to draw any firm conclusions. Nevertheless, as far as is known only one contact who received gamma globulin developed jaundice, and in that case the disease occurred a day or two after the injection. One case of mild generalised vaccinia occurred in a child who was vaccinated at the age of six weeks. Hyper immune gamma globulin \Yas administered and the child made a rapid and complete recovery. Influenza occurred during the month of January reaching a peak at the week ending 3l st January when the figures for the sickness claims benefits for Buxton and districts reached a maximum of 516% above the vifeekly average. Samples submitted to the Virus Laboratory at Sheffield resulted in the isolation of Influenza virus type A2, During the year no case of poliomyelitis occurred and we have every reason to believe that the vaccination state in the district up to school leaving age is highly satisfactory, and the same too can be said with regard to immunization against diphtheria. During the year there was an extensive measles outbreak, but there m^ere no deaths.