[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Brixworth R.D.C.

  • Brixworth (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Brixworth R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES. Notifications of the following infectious diseases were received during the year. Period distribution and parish distribution tables are to be found at the end of the report. Disease. Male. Female. Total. Rate per 1000 population Brix- worth Eng. & Wales. Acute Primary Pneumonia 1 2 3 013 Lobar Pneumonia 1 — 1 0-06 0-79 Influenzal Pneumonia .... — 1 1 0-06 Measles .... 75 80 155 9-85 9-41 Scarlet Fever 14 19 33 2-09 1-37 Anterior Poliomyelitis .... 2 3 5 0-31 — Dysentery Sonne — 1 1 0-06 — Erysipelas 1 1 2 012 019 Diphtheria — — — 013 Typhoid — — — 001 Whooping Cough 14 21 35 2-22 2-22 Peuperal Pyrexia — — — — — Ophthalmia Neonatorium — — — — — TOTALS 108 128 236 Scarlet Fever—^Thirty-three cases were reported during tlie year, of these twenty-four were removed to the Isolation Hospital at Ivettering, and nine were isolated at liome. No deaths were recorded. Typhoid Fever—No cases were notified during the year. 10