[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond].

  • Richmond upon Thames (London, England). Council.
Date:
[1935]
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    51 PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Notifiable Diseases during the year. Disease. Total Cases Notified. Cases Admitted to Hospital. Total Deaths. Poliomyelitis 1 1 ... Amoebic Dysentery 2 2 ... Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 2 2 1 Diphtheria 55 55 ... Scarlet Fever 52 47 ... Puerperal Fever 2 2 1 Puerperal Pyrexia 5 5 ... Pneumonia (Primary) 33 22 6 Influenzal Pneumonia 1 1 1 Erysipelas 19 13 1 Chicken Pox 52 1 ... Ophthalmia Neonatorum 3 3 ... Tuberculosis : [a) Respiratory (M). 27 19 11 (F.) 24 15 11 Total 51 34 22 (b) Non-Respiratory (M.) 4 2 2 (F)... 4 2 1 Total 8 4 3 Diphtheria. Daring the year 55 cases of Diphtheria were notified as compared with 64 in 1933. The rate per 1,000 living was 1.42 as compared with a case rate of 1.70 in England and Wales. There were unfortunately four deaths from the disease during the year. It cannot be too well known that patients with this disease, if treated properly within the first twenty-four hours will almost certainly recover. Every hour of delay beyond this means increased danger to the life of the patient. Antitoxin for the treatment of the disease is kept by various chemists in the Borough and is immediately available for any medical practitioner. The cost of serum so supplied during the year was £6 19s. 6d.