[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Hartismere R.D.C.

  • Hartismere (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Hartismere R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TUBERCULOSIS. New cases notified - 16, Ages and sex .. Pulmonary - Ma 1 es - Females Non-Pulmonary - Hales 17, 21, 30, (1 of these 20, 20, 30, 4. •I II... 45, 51\ 48, 63. was a transfer). 52, 66. - Females 10, 16, 17. 3 deaths occurred, all Pulmonary, 2 males of 21 and 51, and one female of 24. Another male death- is returned by the Registrar that I am unable to trace, and the female death is not given by him. This last case was a transfer inwards--. DIPHTHERIA BMJNISATI0N. Number of children immunised - Under age five 5-14 years 788 ) 62$: of all children 341 ) • immunised ’’Booster” doses given at school- - 13-5. The response in the infant section is still fairly good but there is a falling off in the booster numbers. This is unfortunate, the initial immunisation of infancy has declined just at the time a child goes to school and is at risk by reason of mixing with others. Propaganda on this point would be. appreciated. Notification of all infectious disease is satisfactory. MILK. . 21 samples taken for Tuberculosis were negative. 3 samples were positive, four cows woro identified as affected and were slaughtered. In. all cases heat-treated milk was substituted for any raw milk being sold. -One sample was brucella infected, the milk in this case was already being heat-treated. I am unable to give the.figures of accredited and Tuberculin- tested milks as this lsf no longer in the hands of the local authority. Another change which I record with regret is that I no longer visit the cases of Tuberculosis. This has been taken over by the Hospitals Board and the part of the local 11.0.H._ is reduced to keeping a register of cases. ■ ... HUBERT PEDLER, Medical Officer of Health. ,2.