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 ---)