PUBLIC HEALTH
IN
GREAT AYTON
EXTRACT FROM GT. AYTON SELECT VESTRY MINUTES 1832
“A meeting of the inhabitants in August
in consequence of the approach of the
alarming disease, the Asiatic cholera,
established a board and began inspection
of the village for the removal of
nuisances”
CHOLERA DEATHS IN YORKSHIRE 1831 - 1866
1831 1849 1854 1866
NORTH RIDING 47 47 84 21
EAST RIDING 507 2140 70 54
WEST RIDING 1416 4151 470 283
EDWIN CHADWICK
“The Father of Public Health”
GREAT AYTON DOCTORS FROM CIRCA 1800
Fotherley Pannell 1748 – 1826
Thomas Loy 1775 – 1842
Thomas Loy (junior) 1816 – 1871
Lawson Fleck Crumney - 1886
William Augustus Loy 1819 – 1886
Charles Stuart 1858 – 1923
“THE GOLDEN AGE OF BACTERIOLOGY”
1876 ANTHRAX BACILLUS: ROBERT KOCH
1880 STREPTOCOCCUS: LOUIS PASTEUR
1881 STAPHYLOCOCCUS: ALEX OGSTON
1882 TUBERCLE BACILLUS ROBERT KOCH
1883 CHOLERA VIBRIO: ROBERT KOCH
1883 DIPHTHERIA BACILLUS: EDWIN KLEBS
1884 TYPHOID BACILLUS: GEORGE GAFFKY
1892 GAS-GANGRENE BACILLUS: WILLIAM WELCH
1894 PLAGUE BACILLUS: ALEX YERSIN
1898 DYSENTERY BACILLUS: KYOSHI SHIGA
19TH CENTURY PUBLIC HEALTH MILESTONES
1842 REPORT ON THE SANITARY CONDITIONS OF THE
LABOURING POOR
1845 ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE HEALTH OF TOWNS
1846 REMOVAL OF NUISANCES
1848 PUBLIC HEALTH ACT
1853 VACCINATION ACT
1860 PURE FOOD ACT
1871 LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD
1875 PUBLIC HEALTH ACT
CLINICAL APPARATUS PURCHASED IN HONOUR OF HER MAJESTY'S
DIAMOND JUBILEE 1897
BATH CHAIR
FEEDING CUPS 10
HOT WATER BOTTLES 4
BED TABLES 2
RUBBER AIR CUSHIONS
STRETCHER
SLIPPER BED PANS 2
BRONCHITIS KETTLES 2
BED RESTS 4
ENEMA SYRINGE
Dr William Metcalfe YeomanMB. MRCS. LSA.
Medical Officer of Health and Public Vaccinator forStokesley Rural District
1889 - 1937
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH REPORTS
BIRTHS & DEATHS
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
WATER SUPPLIES
DAIRIES & COWSHEDS
SEWERAGE & DRAINAGE
SCAVENGING
HOUSING
SLAUGHTERHOUSES
CAUSES OF DEATH AT ALL AGES 1929
INFLUENZA 5
CANCER 6
CEREBRAL HAEMORRHAGE 3
HEART DISEASE 8
ARTERIO - SCLEROSIS 1
BRONCHITIS 3
PNEUMONIA 5
ACUTE & CHRONIC NEPHRITIS 1
CONGENITAL DEBILITY 1
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE 3
OTHER DEFINED DISEASES 8
TOTAL 44
CENSUS RETURNS FOR GREAT AYTON
YEAR 1891 1901 1911 1921
POPULATION 1727 1674 2319 2534
YARM 1608 1607 1618 1650
STOKESLEY 1513 1642 1624 1641
INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFICATION ACT 1889
SMALLPOX CHOLERA DIPHTHERIA SCARLET FEVER ERYSIPELAS
TYPHUS ENTERIC FEVER RELAPSING FEVER PUERPERAL FEVER PLAGUE
VIBRIO CHOLERAE
FLAGELLAE
IRON LUNG (WEST LANE HOSPITAL)
HIGHGREENPUMP
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“A virus is only doing its job”
David Cronenburg (1943 ---)
