[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council.

Nottinghamshire (England). County Council.

Date:: 1915

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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Death-Rates from the following Infectious Diseases per 100,000 Population. YEAR 1915. 1914. Mean for 10 years 1905-1914. Scarlet Fever 39 54 5-5 Diphtheria 17-2 171 13 9 Enteric Fever 2 5 40 6-4 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 739 68-5 74-8 Other Forms of Tubercu- losis 322 32-4 38-4 The increase of the Infantile Mortality death-rate in a favourable year indicates the need for more Health Visitors and more Infant Welfare Centres. Scarlet Fever and Enteric Fever show a very satisfactory diminution in mortality ; but the deaths from Diphtheria and from Tuberculosis continue to increase. A most serious new duty has been placed upon County Councils by the Public Health (Venereal Diseases) Regu¬ lations, issued by the Local Government Board on July 12th, 1916. The County Council are required to provide laboratory facilities for a scientific report upon any material which a medical practitioner may submit from a patient suspected to be suffering from venereal disease. And are also required to prepare a scheme for the treatment of persons suffering from venereal disease in hospitals or other institutions, and for the supply of Salvarsan to medical practitioners. Many preliminary enquiries have already been made and a Scheme will shortly be ready. The extensive dislocation of medical work by the War is shown by the fact that the County Medical Officer and three doctors of the School Medical Staff have been absent on military duty, and the three latter are still absent. And, further, four of the district Medical Officers of Health have received commissions. One of them has died abroad, and one has returned to civil life after a year’s work. I have the honour to remain, Your obedient servant, HENRY HANDFORD.