[Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheltenham Borough.

  • Cheltenham (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1957
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Credit: [Report 1957] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheltenham Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHEMICAL EXAMINATIONS Cheltenham Dowdeswell Northfield ... Sandford Swimming Pools ... Miscellaneous No. of Samples Examined 1956 1957 5 4 5 4 7 4 — 2 3 — 20 14 SWIMMING BATHS Regular samples of water from the Swimming Baths are submitted for bacteriological examination. These showed that a satisfactory standard has been maintained throughout the year. MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATION) REGULATIONS During 1957, licences to use special designations in relation to milk sold within the Borough, totalled eighty-one, as follows :— Designation Type of Licence Total Pasteurisers Dealers Supplementary Tuberculin Tested 33 1 34 Pasteurised 2 32 1 35 Sterilised — 12 — 12 TOTALS 2 77 2 81 Samples are taken fortnightly for analysis and the reports are sub- mitted to the Health Committee. Very few results during 1957 failed to satisfy the standards of the Ministry of Health. PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES The following statement shows the corrected numbers of cases notified during 1957. (Tuberculosis is dealt with separately). An analysis of the notifications according to age and sex is set out on page 19. Dysentery 1 Erysipelas ... 7 Food Poisoning ... 33 Measles ... 739 Meningococcal Infection 1 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1 Pneumonia (all forms) ... 43 Poliomyelitis—Paralytic ... 6 NON Paralytic ... 3 Puerperal Pyrexia ... 80 Scarlet Fever ... ... 35 Whooping Cough ... 70