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APPENDIX
JUBILEE OF THE SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE
EXTRACTS FROM MEDICAL OFFICERS' REPORTS
1900
" Further Sanitary Requirements of District
Much still remains to be done in the relaying and ventilation of
drains and sewers in many parts of the town, in rendering many
houses more habitable by paving round them. I regret exceedingly
that the draining of the old Workhouse property in North Street
has not yet been dealt with."
" Pauperism.
During 1900 there were 461 persons chargeable to the Parish, or
20.4 per 1,000 of the estimated population. The amount expended in
relief was £2,410 or about £5 per head of the population."
1902
Diphtheria ar, Membranous Croup
Though the number of cases during the year was somewhat less
than the year before, the death rate was nearly double Many
of the cases were very severe and I fear that the increased death
rate is largely due to the fact that hospital accommodation was not
always available. The extraordinary efficacy of the anti-diphtheria
serum was over and over again demonstrated and I have no doubt
that if patients could be brought under treatment in the early stage
diphtheria could be banished from our death returns.... The
present system of allowing children who have been absent on account
of contracting the disease to return to school without their throats
being demonstrated clear by bacteriological methods should be
abolished and only those allowed to return who can show a clear
bacteriological certificate . . ."
"Employment of Children
The number of male children engaged in occupation, aged 10
and under 14, is 6 i or 5.6 per cent. engaged in occupation to total.
The number of children of school age is nearly one-third of
entire population, though the number at school age occupied in
earning their living is not by any means high . . . ."
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