[Report 1924] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council.

  • Northamptonshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1924
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Credit: [Report 1924] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the grant of a Provisional Order by the Minister of Health which is expected to be issued during the current year. So far as the existing Isolation Hospitals were concerned^ they appear to have been kept in good repair and ready for the reception of patients, but there was no definite extension of provision during the year for the isolation of small-pox cases. In respect of the more usual zymotic diseases, the Kettering Joint Isolation Hospital accommodated 216 Urban cases (194 Scarlet Fever and 22 Diphtheria) and 65 Rural cases (50 Scarlet Fever and 15 Diphtheria) and had remaining in isolation at the end of the year 24 Scarlet Fever patients of whom 16 were Urban cases and 5 Diphtheria of which 3 were Urban cases. The total isolation afforded was thus 281 cases, with a mortality of 6 (2 Scarlet Fever and 4 Diphtheria) as against a total of 216 in the year 1923. The total number of cases received into the Wellingborough Urban Isolation Hospital was 58, as against 165 in 1923, made up of 52 Scarlet Fever cases, 5 of Diphtheria and 1 Enteric Fever. Of the total number, 22 cases were from the Urban District and 36 from other Districts. The utility of this Hospital has been greatly enhanced by the recent addition of two observation wards with two beds each, and it is recorded that these have proved very useful. The Daventry Rural Isolation Hospital was in use during the whole of the year, and 87 cases of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria were treated therein, as against 68 cases in 1923. There was no mortality, and the cases were admitted from the Rural District (36), Daventry Borough (37), Weedon Barracks (3), and the Southam Rural District in Warwick¬ shire (11). Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria cases numbering 14 in all, of which two were admitted from the Thrapston Rural District, formed the chief part of those who received treat¬ ment in the Oundle Joint Isolation Hospital and, with the exception named, belonged to the Rural District; there were