[Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Billesdon R.D.C.

  • Billesdon (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1953
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, Billesdon R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    3/34
    BILLESDON RURiiL DISTRICT COUIC!n.i> REPORT OF THE IM)IC.AL OFFICER OP HB/IiTH FOR TTIE YEAR EI^DED 31st. DECELEER, 1953» TO: THE CHAIiaiAN MD MEMBERS OP THE BILLESDON RURiJi DISTRICT COUMCIL. Mr,Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you my Annual Report on the health and sanitary circumstances of the Billesdon Rural District for the year 1953* Again I am glad to be able to report that the hea^lth of the Rural District has been good. The death raie is low, 8,9 per 1,000 as aga.inst 11,4 for the v/hole Country, I am gratified to record that both infantile mortality and the maternai death rate have been ’NXL’, The low incidence of notifiable disease, with the exception of Scarlet Pever, Measles and TiThooping Cough, is also very welcome. The cases of Scarlet Pever notified have all been of a mild type. It is a pleasure to be able to report that there v/ere no cases of Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis notified during 1953j ^d I can record v/ith pride that no cases of diphtheria occurred during the year, which is a tribute to the past efforts against this disease. The last place one v/ould associate with food poisoning.^ is a. hospital kitchen, yet 26 cases from this source were notified, and this strengthens the demand for the most adequate and stringent supervision of all people handling food at all stages in its preparation and sale. It is encouraging that the Ministry of Health has advised Hospital Boards to consult vdth the Medical Officer of Health and the Sanitary Inspector on matters of food hygiene and handling In this respect, the Ministry is indeed wise, for the Medical Officer and Sanitary Inspector have the experience in this aspect on important health work, which is as truly preventive medicine’’ as vaccination and diphtheria innoculations,