[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Berkshire County Council.

  • Berkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Berkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following statistics, compiled up to and including June 30th, 1942, refer to patients evacuated under the above Scheme. Number of expectant mothers confined in emergency maternity homes 1,885 Number of expectant mothers confined in the maternity wards of the County Council Emergency Hospitals 402 Number of expectant mothers confined in private nursing homes ... 201 Number of expectant mothers confined in billets 538 Twenty-one evacuated expectant mothers applied for dental treatment, under the County Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme, of which 15 were approved and have received the necessary treatment. TUBERCULOSIS. During the year 1941 ,primary notifications under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912, were received for 236 Pulmonary and 90 Non-pulmonary cases, making a total of 326 for all forms of tuberculosis. This is a decrease compared with the previous year, but is a considerable increase compared with pre-war years. TABLE III. ANNUAL NUMBER OF NOTIFICATIONS RECEIVED SINCE 1932. Pulmonary. N on-Pulmonary. Total. 1932 172 68 240 1933 183 46 229 1934 153 43 196 1935 198 47 245 1936 196 49 245 1937 163 35 198 1938 145 55 200 1939 176 67 243 1940 246 86 332 1941 236 90 326 Mortality.—The number of certified deaths from all forms of tuber- culosis was 134. Of these 93 were due to pulmonary and 41 to non-pulmonary tuberculosis.