[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Analysis of home conditions of the patients at the time of notification shows :— 105 had separate bedrooms. 41 shared bedrooms but had a separate bed. 56 shared beds. In 12 there was objection to health visitor making inquiries. When one considers the smallness, bad ventilation and bad construction of many of these bedrooms, it is obvious that the chances of the spread of the disease are great. Latest information regarding the 56 cases who shared beds showed the position to be as follows :— Cases have separate beds. Shelter supplied. Dead. Not in¬ fectious. In Sana¬ torium. Afterwards diagnosed non- tubercular. Left County. No change. II 7 16 6 7 3 I 5 Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925.—A man who had been treated in vShirlett Sanatorium, and had improved greatly, after being discharged was employed as a cowman on a farm in the Shifnal Rural District. The condition from which he was suffering was chronic fibroid phthisis, and as he was found to have from time to time a positive sputum, the risk of infection of the milk was a very real one. His employer was communicated with and he was discharged, but work on the roads was found for him by the County Council. Public Health Act, 1925, Section 62.—A child in the Borough of Shrewsbury in a highly infectious condition as a result of advanced phthisis was occupying the same room in a condemned house as her parents and two sisters. Removal to a sanatorium was advised, but the parents refused to grant permission. On pointing out the powers of compulsory removal contained in this Section, which would be exercised if found necessary, the parents were persuaded to agree to the removal of the patient. MENTAL DEFICIENCY. This branch of the work is being gradually extended and is taking up an increasing amount of the time of the medical officers, health visitors and clerical staff. Mental defectives under 16 years of age, in whom the degree of defect is not so great as to prevent them being educable in Special Schools, are dealt with under the Education Act. All mental defectives over 16 years of age, and all uneducable mentally defective children under this.