[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough.
- Eastbourne (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![r9 to anyone interested in the sanitary welfare of the town. Each case removed means one centre less from which infectious disease may be disseminated, and not only is the danger and risk of illness, and even death, lessened for those around the patient, but the patients themselves stand a better chance of recovery. The percentage of cases of Scarlet Fever, Enteric Fever, and Diphtheria removed to the Sanatorium during the three past years has been in each year as follows :— In 1892, 56-9 per cent, of the cases. In 1893, 64-5 In 1894, 72-9 The percentages of cases removed in 1894 of each disease were as follows :— Disease. Number of cases notified. Number removed. I ! Percentage of Removals. Scarlet Fever 67 48 71-6 Diphtheria 40 29 72-5 Enteric Fever 15 12 8o’0 The highest percentage of cases was removed from the East Ward from among the poor. This is as it should be, seeing that it is in the smaller houses that isolation is prac- tically impossible and a dead letter. The old prejudices against an isolation hospital are fortunately disappearing with the advance of education and with the improvements in the hospitals themselves. In the above three diseases the fatality of the cases which were removed to the Sanatorium was 7 8 per cent. • of the remaining cases, i.e., those not removed to the Sanatorium, the fatality was 12*1 per cent. In 1893 the fatal]iy for these diseases was 3*0 per cent in the Sanatorium cases, and 10*2 per cent, in the remaining cases. 1 he difference is due partly to the excellent accom-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29691515_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
