[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Newmarket U.D.C.

  • Newmarket (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Newmarket U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREVALENCE OP £ CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES. The following table shows tho number of Infectious Diseases among the civilian population during the year. These are the final numbers after corrections subsequently made either by the Notifying I.Iedical Practitioner or by the I.Iedical Superintendent of the Infectious Disease Hospital•- ALL NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (other than Tuberculosis) DURING 1940* •p 0) 0 r~i~i CU0 c3*> 00 bO p! •H 0 0 bo O B ra 0 E? 0 CQ 0 H m cti 0 Pneumonia. H cd 0 Ph cti 0 *H Ph« r~i 0 0 Pi BE PhPh Grand Total: Mo F. /6 34 43 Totals, M. F. 26 2? Mo Fc 5 5 M. F. 3 5 Me F. - 1 -i M. F. - 4 Age 0 to under 1 — — - 1 ~ — 1 ” 11 • 3 <=r> 2 - 1 - 2 - - 3 5 1 2 3 2 1 1 - _ - - 5 » ” 10 17 18 2 - 2 2 -- - — - 10 ” 15 5 4 15 25 2 - - - - _ ~ 25 ” J 45 1 1 - 1 - - - - 4 ‘T3““Tr H ~^£5 „ ~ — - ~ „ £5 and over — — u - -r rr . , r j i — — It will be noted that the District was comparatively free from infectious diseases during 1948 with the exception of Scarlet Fever, Of the 53 Scarlet Fever cases confirmed? 38 occurred in scholars of the Exning Road School or their immediate contacts. This explosive outbreak began early in Octobere The co-operation of Dr. Rn M, Fry? Director? Emergency Public Health Laboratory? Cambridge? was obtained and it was soon established that the infecting organism was Haemolytic Streptococcus? Group A? Type 20 What ’’trigger1' determined the infectivity of this organism was not identified? for similar Haemolytic Streptococci of Group A? Type 2? were found in some children at All Saints School? but in this latter school no cases of Scarlet Fever occurred, TUBERCULOSIS. NEW CASES AND MORTALITY DURING 1948, During 1948 there were 1( new cases as follows 16 Pulmonary: 7 Males, aged 26? 27? 33? 49? 53? 5k, 70. years. 9 Females? 11? 19? 19? 19? 19? 26, 38? 38? 47years 1 Non-Pulmonary: 1 Male? aged 30 years. There were 3 deaths:- 3 Pulmonary: 2. Males? aged 37? 69 years. 1 Female, 70 years. 20 *-