[Report 1942-1943] / Medical Officer of Health, St Helens County Borough.

  • St. Helens (Merseyside, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1942-1943] / Medical Officer of Health, St Helens County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During 1942 the highest temperature in the shade was on 29th August, yhen it reached 88.O0F, and the lowest was 2Q.0oF on the 27th February. The lighest temperature in 1943 was 88.O0F on 1st August, and the lowest 21.0oF on 5th December. III.—INFECTIOUS DISEASES. General Observations.—The number of cases of infectious diseases iotificd each year since 1934 is shown in Table 2. From that Table it will be seen hat during 1942 the most noticeable feature was the marked incidence of cases of neasles. Cases of scarlet fever showed a fall from the previous year, and the ncidence of diphtheria remained at the same relatively low level as in the previous rear. During 1943 there was no marked incidence in the occurrence of any of the najor infectious diseases, although both scarlet fever and whooping cough returned o a higher rate of notifications than in the preceding years. It is interesting to lotc that corresponding to the increase in cases of scarlet fever there was a sharp ncrease in the occurrence of cases of erysipelas. The number of cases of diphtheria ell in 1943 to the lowest recorded since 1932. Table 3 shows the total number of cases notified during each of the years .942 and 1943, the total number of deaths which occurred and the number ad- nitted to the Corporation Hospital. Table 4 gives the age distribution of the cases notified and Table 1 the age listribution of the deaths which occurred. Table 2. Notification of Infectious Diseases received during the under¬ mentioned years. 1934 1935 1936 Smallpox . _ Scarlet Fever 286 543 590 Diphtheria . 231 225 482 Measles . 1177 1416 1569 Whooping Cough . 185 1032 102 Enteric Fever 2 2 1 10 Dysentery . 1 70 Erysipelas . 77 92 Pneumonia . 234 295 307 Typhus Fever — — — Puerperal Fever 10 9 8 Puerperal Pyrexia . 19 14 17 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 7 14 12 1 Poliomyelitis. — 1 Encephalitis Lethargica 1 2 2 Cerebro-Spinal Fever — 1 2 Malaria . 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 671 577 995 221 186 146 322 463 437 479 287 252 255 120 992 1776 265 3057 601 3066 269 880 500 361 403 1005 423 616 2 1 1 — 49 1 3 19 — 9 88 69 11 63 53 46 34 28 28 45 275 128 118 123 134 60 111 7 29 }31 32 15 13 7 11 8 8 7 9 9 4 7 2 2 4 1 4 — 1 _ 1 1 4 1 _ 3 3 5 45 25 11 10 — 1