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You will notice that no cases of Infectious Diseases were notified
in 1907 in Charnock Richard, Heapey, Welch Whittle, Ulnes Walton, and
Anglezarke; and from the two latter townships none were reported in the
previous year.
Most of the townships show a marked decrease in the number of
infectious cases, more especially Coppull, Hoghton, Bretherton, Eccleston,
Euxton, and Whittle-le-Woods.
In Brindle owing to an epidemic of Diphtheria there was a marked
increase in the number of cases of that disease.
Smallpox has not been notified in your District since 1903, and if
any cases should occur, the Joint Hospital Board have provided in the
Finnington Hospital, Hoghton, belonging to the Blackburn Corporation,
sufficient accommodation for the reception of such cases. It would be more
satisfactory to all the Health Officers if the people at large were rendered
insusceptible of Smallpox by Infant Vaccination and He-vaccination, which,
I fear, are being neglected now that the incidence of cases is so rare, and
that the means of obtaining exemption have been made so easy.
Scarlet Fever.—Only nineteen (19) cases of Scarlet Fever have been
reported during the year, six (6) of which occurred at Bretherton, four (4)
at Coppull, three (3) at Hoghton, two (2) each at Wheelton and Rivington,
and one (1) each at Eccleston and Whittle-le-Woods. Nine (9) of these
capes were removed to the Isolation Hospital, as they were not able to be
effectually isolated at home.