The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-09-25 00:00:00

parliamentars Papers.

PCni.to I I EALTII. —By the Public Health Act of 1858
the h-ivy Council are empowered to cacao inquiry to he
made, when they nott fit. in relation to the public health
in any lance ; and a mcdii al officer, Mr. Simon, is
attached to the Council, and Auperintends such
love-
tig.ntimnim. His report of the proct-edings of 1859, which
has recently Wen insued, deals with several subjects of
great interest. Diarrhoea' diseases, though generally
preveutible, are increaaing in this country, and their
epi lonic attgravationn are voinetimee of ajipalling
severity. It ban hero truly said that probably since the
days of the great plague death has never so scared an
English population so in the cholera emilemic of New'
castle in 1853 and in the Goblen-sapiare outbreak in
1854. Now, iliarrhotal Ilines-es prevail with extrAor-
dinnry inequality in different parts of the country ; and
it is to be recollected that the endemic Causes of
diarrhoea are the causes of much other iliwane. It was
therefore determined to begin in time authorized liwal
Inquiries in canine of excessive preventible nicrtality
with an ezaminntion of ths disproportionate locsltzs•
tion of diarrinea in particular districts Armrdingly,
eight large town were selected last year, which
hAbituAlly suffer a very guest excess of mortmlity from
this reuse, Anil Dr. Greenling, Was commisnioned, an a
teoupot•ry inspector, to inquire into their ssuitary con-
dition. The towns are Coventry, Manchester and Sal.
for I, Nottingluun, ltmrinunghmum mm Dudley, Le-'dn.
Wolverhampton, snit Merthyr Tydfil. It wen necessary
to find a fair ntaniiArd for the rate of diarrlicral
There are districts of Englind in which enbeinic
diarrhoea is unknown, but, leaving these, it was thought
reasonable to take two vonsiderable groups of couti.t ttttt
rural districts, one in the north, and the other in the
aoutli—dintricta hy no means no (nettlenv as to be im•
approachable, but in them the annual average dinrriiseal
denth rate during the years 1847-1855 was only 29 ifi
100,000 of the population. In the eight towns just
named the mortality from thin ozone is fruni three to
nine times an great. In all of them Dr. Greenhow
found it coincident with one or other of these tan cir•
eunistenceni—the habitual drinking iif impure water or
the tninting of the atmosphere with the prodnets of
organics decomposition, especially of 111111111i1 refuse. lii
other words, in the districts which suffer from high
diarrhael death-rates the popellatios either breathe or

lIOLLoWAVII Gatherings.
No &owes tax the fortitude more than 1.16 end their kin.
dred omplaints. The ,evere inflannuation with which they
all commence is exceedingly painful, lodted ainnot intolerable.
If the particular part afflicted be fomented for some time in
wino water, dried. and immediately afterwards thickly
covered with Holloway,. Ointment, the pain will gradually
grow low. the throbbing soon subside. Lnd the ridng fever
fri.'"lrZT4l
nines. In inflammation of toe finger., whitlow, *c., this
Ointment prevents all contracUona of those member.. relieving
the andante iroutall doubt is to the prevervaUon of the elude
entirety.