[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Jersey.

  • Jersey (Channel Islands). Council.
Date:
1950
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    parents of young children found to be Mantoux positives. This work has thrown considerable strain on the X-Ray Department of the General Hospital. All new nurses in training are Mantoux tested and those who are negative receive B.C.G. vaccine. All nurses, whether at the General Hospital, Overdale Hospital, Maternity Hospital, Sandybrook, or St. Saviour’s Hospital, have an X-Ray periodically, in order to detect tuberculosis of the lungs in the earliest stages, should it occur. There were 89 notifications of new cases of tuber¬ culosis during the year. Of these four were primary complex only. This gives a rate of 1.56 per 1,000 or 156 per ioo,oco. Notification has greatly im¬ proved during the year. 111 cases were admitted to Overdale during the year. Of these, 3 died. POLIOMYELITIS. There was no epidemic of poliomyelitis during the year under review, but 15 cases of non paralytic polio were notified and 3 cases of paralytic polio. Of the paralytic cases 2 were infected in England and one of these died. PARATYPHOID. There were 12 cases, one of which was nursed at home and 11 admitted to Overdale. The strain of nursing these cases has been greatly reduced by the use of chloromycetin, and all signs and symptoms disappear in a few days, though attention to diet must be continued. DIPHTHERIA. There were no cases of diphtheria during the year. 3,023 children were immunised during 1950. Nearly 90% of our school children are immunised.