[Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Dover Town and Port.

  • Dover (England). Town and Port Council.
Date:
1931
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Credit: [Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Dover Town and Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (6) (b) Summary of Total cases treated during 1931 o • County. Borough. Rural. Military. Port. Total. Scarlet Fever —. 29 9 3 — 41 Diphtheria — 49 7 1 — 57 Diphtheria “Carriers ” — 25 1 — — 26 Observation .. .—. 14 — — 1 15 Pneumonia —• 1 — — —■ 1 Puerperal Pyrexia •—• 4 — — — 4 Erysipelas —. 5 — —• — 5 Cerebro-spinal Fever — — 1 — — 1 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 22 10 ■— — — 32 22 137 18 4 1 182 (6) (c) Treatment in Hospital: Scarlet Fever. In the last series of Annual Reports, the subject of the serum treatment of Scarlet Fever in the Isolation Hospital has been reviewed in detail. Up to 1925 it was the routine practice in the Hospital to use in acute cases an antistreptococcal serum (scarlatina), or the polyvalent streptococcal serum. Tlic following tables show the data to the end of 1931 :— Table A. Average number of Days in Hospital. Recovery Cases only. All Cases, Treated with Serum. Treated without Serum, Including Deaths. Year. No. of Cases. Days. No. of Cases. Days. Total Cases. Days. 1921 20 42.60 98 38.58 118 39.26 1922 16 46.62 40 40.42 56 42.19 1923 20 44.60 15 43.86 36 43.30 1924 28 42.76 32 39.34 60 40.90 1925 12 49.83 24 40.41 36 43.55 1926 10 40.80 44 34.63 54 35.77 In 1926, one began testing the new serum with the result that the average stay in hospital was 35 days, while for the last five years the results are —- Total Cases. Average Days in Hospital. 1927 II2 27 1928 105 26 1929 87 23 1930 58 26 1931 37 29 These averages are for all cases admitted, but serum is only given to those patients who still have a rash on admission, or, if the rash has gone, who still have a temperature. It is realised that the numbers admitted to hospital are small, but they are always about 87% of all the cases in the area which the hospital serves, a combined population at the census of 50,123,