[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough.

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

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    diseases, especially typhoid fever, remained low. The type of scarlet fever continued very mild, there being no deaths. After many years’ immunity one case of small pox, a casual, was diagnosed at the Frederick Road Institution. All possible precautions as regards disinfection and vaccination or re-vaccina- tion of contacts were taken, and fortunately no secondary cases occurred. Of the non-nolifiable infectious diseases, influenza, measles and whooping cough, although prevalent in the spring, were only responsible for a slight mortality in 1928. The general policy of the Borough Sanatorium was main- tained. Beds were always safeguarded tor the three infectious diseases usually isolated, scarlet fever, diphtheria and enteric ; in addition, other infectious diseases, eg., measles, especially if complicated by pneumonia, whooping cough, chicken pox and erysipelas, were accepted, provided beds and staff were available, especially from homes where proper nursing was difficult, or where isolation was impossible, for example in boarding houses, general hospitals, and hotels. Maternity and Child Welfare. The work of this department, of which full details are furnished in the report, was fully maintained. The Central Clinic at Beach Terrace, which replaced the Tackleway Clinic in the Old Town in 1927, is now the most highly attended of all the five centres. In its equipment and general arrangements, apart from some difficult)' in parking prams, it is quite a model. It will be a great misfortune if, when Beach Terrace is razed for the purpose of the new front line road, the Central Clinic cannot be replaced by another clinic equally well situated and equipped. The new clinic at Ilollington has also amply justified its existence for the people of the council houses and the outlying district. The Voluntary Society, the Service of Help for Motherhood and Infancy, with its willing ami enthusiastic lady helpers, has worked in complete harmony with the Health Department. Tuberculosis. 1 he decline both in the incidence, as shown by the cases notified for the first time, and also in the death-rate, was