[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Poole Borough.

  • Poole (Dorset, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1942
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    Public Health Department, Municipal Buildings, Poole. _ Mayor* M and Gentlemen, In submitting the Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary Circumstances of the Borough for the year 1942, I have presented the essential statistical data and have omitted, as requested by the Ministry of Health, comments and details ordinarily recorded in peace¬ time. The health of the people of Pocle has remained satisfactory in spite of the abnormal conditions caused by the war, and the state of nutrition of school children has been weJdL maintained. The incid« c^ of infectious disease has not been above average, the only disease- calling for comment being diphtheria of' a malignant type. The high level of immunisation safeguarded the community from a serious out¬ break, but there were some deaths in unprotected children. During the year additional accommodation for the nursing staff at the Infectious Diseases Hospital was completed, and the conversion of a temporary open ward into a cubicle block was carried out. An Assistant Medical Officer for Port Health and Civil Defence duties was appointed, and a Scabies Treatment Centre staffed by Civil Defence workers was opened at Longfleet Gardens in a building loaned by the Dorset County Council. The arrangements for Orthopaedic treeitment under the School Medical and Child Welfare Services were discontinued at the Cornelia Hospital and new arrangements were made under a scheme operating in the County Boroughs of Bournemouth and Southampton and in the County of Hampshire.