[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Louth Borough.

  • Louth (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1961
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Credit: [Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Louth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    B—At the Local Hospitals : County Hospital, Louth Out Patient Clinics Ophthalmology—Monday 10 a.m. Ear, Nose and Throat—Monday 2.30 p.m. Ante-natal—Monday 2.30 p.m. Dental—Monday 3 p.m. Genito-Urinary—Monday 11.30 a.m. Psychiatry—Tuesday 9.30 a.m. Surgical—Tuesday 2.30 p.m. and Friday 2.30 p.m. Chest—Wednesday 9 a.m. Paediatric—Wednesday 2 p.m. (The 1st Wednesday in each month at 10 a.m.) Orthopaedic—Wednesday 9.30 a.m. and Friday 9.30 a.m. Radiotherapy—Alternate Thursdays 11 a.m. Gynaecology—Thursdays 2 p.m. Venereology—Thursdays 2 p.m. Medical—Thursdays 10 a.m. and Fridays 10 a.m. Dermatology—Fridays 2 p.m. Radiology—Tuesday and Thursday School Children’s Eye Clinic—1st and 3rd Tuesday 10 a.m. Louth & District Hospital Out Patient Clinics Monday 2.30 p.m. & Thursday 10.30 a.m. PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES Infectious Diseases other than Tuberculosis during 1961 Disease Cases Notified Case rates per 1,000 of estimated population Measles 85 7.5 Scarlet Fever 2 0.17 Dysentery 1 0.08 Puerperal Pyrexia 3 *15.79 Total 91 *per 1,000 (Live and Still Births) Measles accounted for an increase in the notifications of infectious diseases during the year, there being 85 cases notified. Measles tends to increase in alternate years and 1961 was a year when such an increase was expected.