[Report 1942-1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Leatherhead U.D.C.

  • Leatherhead (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1945
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Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1942-1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Leatherhead U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2. General Provision of Health Services _fo_r_the Area. No alterations of note have occurred during the period under review. Laboratory Facilities. Luring the period under review the number of laboratory made was as follows:- Year Year diagnosis of Diphtheria « 1943 94V II tl Tuberculosis. 52. 34. SI II Snteric Fever 15. 6. II 1* Haemolytic Streptococci. 16. 23. SI tl Venereal Disease • — 10. 22 An^ulance Facilities. Luring the year 1942 the ambulance was used for 94 accidents and 510 sickness cases - 604 cases in all - and travelled a distance of 5>738 miles. In the year 1943 was used for 46 accidents and 545 sickness cases - 591 cases in all - and travelled a distance of 5>725 miles. 3. ^njiitarJv_G-ir-cumstances of the Area. No alterations of note have occurred during the period under review. Drainage and Sewerage. During the period under review there was no damage to either of the Sewage Disposal Works or Sewers, or to any of the three pumping stations resulting from enemy action. During the year 1942 eight properties have been connected to the main sewers and the existing cesspools abolished, while in 1943 six properties have been connected to the main sewers. Public Cleansing. In the year 1942 the fortnightly collection instituted in 1941 has proved adequate and manpower and petrol consumption correspondingly saved. No alterations of note occurred during the year 1943* Sanitary Inspections of the Area. I am indebted to Mr. Sydney R. Drake M.R.San.I.,M.S.I.A., the Chief Sanitary Inspector, for the following summary of the work of his department during the period under review:- -4-