[Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Fleetwood U.D.C. and Port Sanitary Authority.

  • Fleetwood (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1921
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Credit: [Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Fleetwood U.D.C. and Port Sanitary Authority. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infectious Disease. Under the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889, and later Orders, 233 cases were notified. In Table II. at the end of this Report a detailed list will be found of the several diseases. The following list gives the number of cases of Infectious Diseases notified and removed to hospital :— Nature of Disease. Cases notified. Cases removed to Hospital. Diphtheria and Membranous Croup 35 16 Erysipelas.... 6 — Scarlet Fever 62 46 Enteric Fever 3 0 O Puerperal Fever .... 1 — Ophthalmia Neonatorum 4 — Encephalitis Eethargica 2 — Acute Primary Pneumonia 29 1 Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 24 1 Chicken-pox 21 — Pulmonary Tuberculosis 29 — Other forms of Tuberculosis n / — Totai.s 223 67 Diphtheria. Thirty-five cases were notified during the year and sixteen of these were removed to the Isolation Hospital at Moss Side. Of the six deaths due to Diphtheria, only three occurred in the hospital.