[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight County Council.

  • Isle of Wight (England). County Council. n 83204987.
Date:
1926
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Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Vaccination.—The Clerk to the Guardians has kindly supplied the figures in Table VII showing the vaccination returns in recent years- No vaccinations were performed by the Medical Officer of Health under the Public Health (Small-pox Prevention Regulations, 1917.) Table VII. Year 1 Births 2 Vaccinated 3 Insusceptible 4 Dead 5 Conscientious Objection 6 Postponed 1 Removed 8 Unaccounted Percentage not Vaccinated, i.e. Columns 5, 6, 7, and 8. 1922 1494 448 4 63 799 24 76 80 65.5 1923 1343 467 3 48 703 21 35 66 61.4 1924 1279 510 1 39 611 17 56 45 57.0 1925 1247 511 5 67 588 6 52 18 53.2 1926 1198 442 1 51 620 12 51 20 58.7 TUBERCULOSIS. Table VIII.—Showing the Number of New Cases and the Deaths from Tuberculosis during the Year Age Periods NEW CASES DEATHS Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary M F M F M F M F o- — ' — — — — i- — 1 1 — — — 1 5— 1 2 1 10 1 — 2 3 1 - 1 1 1 15 3 3 1 2 7 A 7 20 7 4 1 — 1 5 1 — 25 10 15 l 3 35 15 9 1 f 20 20 3 4 45 7 3 — 1 55 5 2 — — } ' 5 1 l 65 and upwards — — — — -- 2 — 1 48 38 8 11 | 32 35 6 7 The number of new cases of Tuberculosis was 105 (147), and the number of deaths was 80 (84). Only 11 cases of Tuberculosis came to the knowledge of this department otherwise than by notification, and these cases were notified by the Tuberculosis Officer to the District Medical Officers of Health- Notification was therefore nearly complete- It was remarked in last year’s report that the increased number of notifications during 1925 was probably due not so much to any real increase in the amount of Tuberculosis, as to the notification during that year of cases that had escaped notification previously, and this view would seem to be confirmed by the fact that the number of deaths from Tuberculosis has fallen slightly this year- In New- port, St- Helens and Sandown all the deaths due to Tuberculosis were of persons previously notified- Four of the 26 deaths from Tuberculosis in the Rural District, four of the seven in Ryde and one of the six in East Cowes were of un-notified persons. In the cases of Cowes, Shanklin and Ventnor it is not stated in the Annual Reports of the Medical Officers of Health how many of the deaths were of un-notified persons. No action was taken by any of the Sanitary Authorities under the Public Health (Prevention of Tu- berculosis) Regulations 1925 as there are no Tuberculous patients employed in the milk trades so far as is known- No patients were compulsarily removed to Hospital. Table IX is a Summary of the Changes in the Tuberculosis Register during the Year. Number of Patients Pulmonary M F Non-Pulmonary M F Total M F On Register at end of 1925 246 152 36 32 282 184 Added during 1926 ... 48 38 8 11 56 49 Total 294 190 44 43 338 233 Removed to other areas during 1926 Removed from the Register as being not 34 00 cq — 1 34 29 tuberculous 10 7 — 1 10 8 Died during 1926 39 28 2 2 4 L 30 Number on Register at the end of 1926 ... 211 127 42 39 253 166