[Report 1940-1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen City.

  • Aberdeen (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1940-1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Puerperal Fever. Among 37 confirmed cases of puerperal fever notified in 1945, 2 deaths occurred. The average annual number of cases and deaths in the preceding ten years were 46 and 4 respectively. Pueperal Pyrexia. Of the total puerperal cases notified, 4 were ultimately classified as cases of puerperal pyrexia. In the preceding ten years, the average annual number of cases was 33. For further details regarding puerperal fever and puerperal pyrexia, reference should be made to the section of the report dealing with the Maternity and Child Welfare Services. Scabies. A total of 2,457 persons was treated in 1945 for scabies or other skin affections at the City Hospital Cleansing Station, as compared with an annual average of 4,239 in the preceding five years. Reference to the Cleansing Station, which was erected in 1941, is made on page 15. Scarlet Fever. In 1945, 316 cases were notified, as against an average of 501 in the preceding ten years. The disease in 1945 was of a mild type, there being no deaths. Smallpox. Aberdeen has remained free from smallpox since 1930. Vaccinia. In 1945, the proportion of children escaping vaccination under the Conscientious Objection Clause of the Vaccination (Scotland) Act, 1907, was 8 per cent. Tuberculosis. There were notified in 1945, 255 cases of tuberculosis—207 of pulmonary and 48 of non-pulmonary tuberculosis—as compared with an annual average of 127 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 59 non-pulmonary cases in the preceding decennium. Of 85 deaths in 1945, 70 were due to pulmonary tuberculosis, 15 to non- pulmonary tuberculosis, as against 75 and 24 respectively in the preceding decennium. A detailed analysis of the cases and deaths from tuberculosis in Aberdeen is given in the section relating to Tuberculosis Services. Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers. One case of typhoid fever and 6 of paratyphoid B. fever were notified in 1945. All received institutional treatment. There were no deaths. Typhus Fever. No cases. Venereal Diseases. A detailed analysis of these cases is given in the appropriate section. Whooping Cough. During 1945, 195 cases were reported, with 4 deaths, as against an average of 322 cases and 9 deaths in the preceding decennium. Three of the deaths in 1945 occurred in children under 1 year of age,