[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Chichester R.D.C.

  • Chichester (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Chichester R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The followng is a copy of Part I of a return which is required by the Ministry of Health and shows the nunrber of children resident in the district who had completed a complete course of immunisation at any time up to the end of the 31st December, 1947. Age at 31.12.47, i.e. Born in Year Under 1 1947 1 1946 2 1945 3 1944 4 1943 5 to 9 1938 to 1942 10 to 14 1933 to 1937 Total under 15 Xumbcr Immunised 218 364 397 465 2647 2462 6553 Estimated mid-year child population, 1947 3487 • 5373 8860 DYSENTERY Five cases of this disease were brought to the notice of the Department. Four of the cases occurred in Singleton parish and the remaining one in Westhampnett. One patient was admitted to Isolation Hospital. There were no deaths from this disease during the year. ENTERIC FEVER As in the previous year, no cases of Typhoid or Para-typhoid Fevers were notified, and no deaths were recorded during the year from these diseases. PUERPERAL PYREXIA One case of this condition was notified as compared with four in the year 1946. The patient was nursed at home and made an uneventful recovery. OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM Two cases of this disease were notified during the year as compared with two for the previous year. The patients, a female aged four weeks, and a male aged ten days, received treatment at St. Richard’s Hospital, and both recovered without any impairment of vision. SUPPLIES OF INSULIN During the year arrangements were made for the supply, free of cost, of the necessary units of insulin for three diabetics whose financial circumstances were limited. SCARLET FEVER During the year 39 cases of this disease were notified as compared with 35 in 1946. One notification was cancelled. Of the 38 cases, seventeen were removed to hospital, seven to the City of Chichester Isolation Hospital, and ten to Bognor Regis Isolation Hospital. The average stay in hospital was 23 days. Two suspected cases were under observation in the Isolation Hospitals for a period of eight days and two days respectively. In the majority of cases the disease was mdd in character, and the cases were all distributed through the district, seventeen parishes being affected, those with the greatest number being Bersted and Slindon with fiv’e, Pagham with four, and Aldingbourne and Donnington with three cases.