[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, North-West Cheshire Combined Area (Bebington & Bromborough U.D.C., Ellesmere Port & Whitby U.D.C., Hoylake & West Kirby U.D.C., Neston & Parkgate U.D.C., Wirral R.D.C., Moreton).

  • North-West Cheshire Combined Area.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, North-West Cheshire Combined Area (Bebington & Bromborough U.D.C., Ellesmere Port & Whitby U.D.C., Hoylake & West Kirby U.D.C., Neston & Parkgate U.D.C., Wirral R.D.C., Moreton). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, Particulars of Samples forwarded to the Public Analyst from the district during the year ending 31st December, 1938. Number of Samples Certi- Name of Sample. Number fied as Adulterated or not Analysed. up to Standard. Bi-carbonate of Soda ... 1 — Boracic Ointment 1 — Butter ... 1 — Cheese (Cheshire) 1 — Fish Paste 1 — Flowers of Sulphur 1 — Fruit, dried 1 -— Glycerine 1 -—- Eard 1 — Liquid Paraffin 1 -—- Liquorice Powder 1 — Milk . 12 — Oil of Wintergreen 1 — Olive Oil 2 — Seidlitz Powder 1 — Suet, shredded ... 1 — Sulphur Tablets 1 ■— Whisky ... 2 — Zinc Ointment ... 1 — Total 32 — Prevalence of, and Control over, Infectious Diseases. Infectious Diseases Generally. The prevalence of infectious diseases in the years 1933 - 38 is shown in the following table which gives the case rate pel 1,000 of the population. Year. Small Pox. Scarlet Fever. Diphtheria. Enteric Fever. Pneumonia Erysipelas 1933 0.00 *1.2 *0.25 0.00 O.4O 1934 0.00 *1.7 *1.12 0.l8 O.18 1935 0.00 *1.3 *1.1 0.00 6.4 1936 0.00 I.67 *0.44 0.00 O.44 1937 0.00 *0.90 *0.90 0.00 i-47 O.24 1938 0.00 *2.84 * I.65 0.15 0.63 O.O7 *—(This does not include the cases in Heswall Children's Hospital, or the Cleaver Sanatorium, or in Pensby Convalescent Home which were not connected with local conditions).