[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Hindley Local Board / U.D.C.

  • Hindley (Wigan, England). Local Board.
Date:
1938
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    quantities as to be a nuisance. The firms were notified and action taken to abate the excessive smoke emission. The number of factory and works’ chimneys in our area is 9- Prevalence and Control of Infectious Disease. Cases of Infectious Diseases notified are at once visited, necessary inquiries made and advice given as to isolation, etc. Printed instructions are issued. Suitable methods of disinfection are carried out after recovery or removal to hospital. Scarlet Fever 90 Diphtheria 30 Paratyphoid Fever ... — Encephalitis Eethargica 2 Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis — Puerperal Pyrexia ... 2 Pneumonia 27 Erysipelas 12 T.B. Pulmonary 14 T.B. Non-pulmonary 14 Chickenpox 48 Measles 141 Whooping Cough 52 Mumps 5