[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Leatherhead U.D.C.

  • Leatherhead (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Leatherhead U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area (Continued) Deaths from:- Measlos (all ages) ... ... ... Nil Whooping Cough (all ages) ... 1 Diarrhoea (Under two yearw of age) 3 Cancer (all ages) ... .. 43 2. General Provisions of Health Services for the Area. No alterations of note have occurred during the year. Laboratory Facilities. During the year 1941 the number of laboratory examin¬ ations. made was as follows For the diagnosis of Diphtheria 22 ii it it ii Tuberculosis. 49 it it tt it Enteric Fever 5 it ti ii ti Haemolytic Streptococci 21 Total 97 Ambulance Facilities. 1. Infectious Diseases. The motor ambulance maintained by the Cuadington Joint Hospital Board is used for the removal of all cases of infectious disease. 2. Non-infectious and accident cases. A motor ambulance owned by the Leathorhead Urban District Council and garaged at the emergency ambulance depot (telephone Leatherhead 2922), and manned by stretcher-bearers in the whole and part-time casualty service, serves for all other cases. In 1941 the ambulance was used for 97 accidents and 288 sickness cases - 385 cases in all - and travelled a dicrtonce of 3>303 miles. 3* Sanitary Circumstances of the Area. No alterations of note have occurred during the year. Drainage and Sev/erage. There was no damage to either of the Sewage Disposal Works or Sewers, or to any of the three pumping stations resulting from enemy action during 1941* Emergency overflows and screening chambers have been constructed at two of the Pumping Stations which adjoin the river so that in the event of the pumping machinery being damaged by enemy action the sewage may be discharged to the river after screening and brief land treatment. During the year six properties have been connected to the main sewers, including five properties where existing cesspools were abolished, and two conversions of pail closets into water closets. One property was provided with new cesspool drainage. 3