[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Bath City & County Borough.

  • Bath (England). City and County Borough Council.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Bath City & County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only ; in one, notification was not completed or withdrawn owing to subsequent developments ; and in two others the diagnosis was considered at the Hospital to be doubtful or incorrect. Of the 111 City cases admitted as Scarlet Fever, in one, noti- fication was not completed or withdrawn owing to subsequent developments ; and in three others the diagnosis was considered at the Hospital to be doubtful or incorrect. Average daily number of patients for year, 17.7. Highest daily average for any one month, 29 in March, April and May. Lowest daily average for any one month, 10 in September and December. PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS. The position is as described on page 18 of my 1925 Report, i.e., the Blind Persons Act of 1920 is administered by the City Council through the Health Committee, but the actual arrange- ments are carried out by the Bath Society for the Blind, upon whose Committee the Council have five representatives. 193 blind persons are known to live in the City. No new action was taken during 1929 under Section 66 of the Public Health Amendment Act, 1925. TUBERCULOSIS. Notifications. 85 new cases were notified during the year—66 pulmonary and 19 non-pulmonary. The figures for pulmonary cases, though a little less favourable than in 1928, are well below those to which we have been accustomed in previous years. An analysis according to age and sex is given on page 6o. Of the 85 cases notified, 23 (20 pulmonary) had died by 31st March, 1930, 16 within three months of notification. 38 of them were included among admissions to sanatoria during the year, 33 to Winsley and 5 elsewhere. The total number of cases on the Register of Notifications on 31st December, 1929, was 599.