[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Heath Town D.C.

  • Heath (England). Town Council.
Date:
1914
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    of 34, 32 were isolated. All the cases admitted into your Hospital were mild cases, except the Workhouse children, who were septic, and one tuberculous. The cases on the whole have been of a mild type; none have died. Diphtheria.—20 cases have been notified, a rate of 1.50 per thousand, of which four have died. The Council pay for Antitoxin, used both for treatment and prophylactic purposes, provided that the patient or friends are unable to pay for it. Enteric Fever.—After many years of exemption we had one case in 1912, five cases in 1913, and one case this year. There was nothing in the sanitary condition of the premises to call for suspicion. Measles.—There were four cases reported and two deaths. Chicken Pox.—There were 14 cases reported from one school in one day, no other previous cases being reported. To make sure of the diagno^s I immediately visited the greater number of the cases and found that in all cases I saw, the diagnosis was correct, but no doctor had been called in. Owing to the danger of the maternal diagnosis overlooking a possible case of Small Pox, I have advised that where the Head Teacher receives more than six notifications of Chicken Pox on one day at the beginning of an epidemic, that he send a report to me direct and on that day, without waiting for the end of the week. Whoopingi Cough.—Eight cases have been reported and three deaths. Mumps.—Five cases have been reported. • Closure of and Exclusion of Children from School, Non- notifiable Infectious Diseases.—I have described in the last three years’ Reports the procedures decided upon for Medical Officers of Health in the Administrative County for putting in force the joint Memorandum of the Medical Officers of the Local Government Board and the Board of Education. I recommended that this should be put in folce, and for this purpose an officer of the Council should follow up all cases of non-notifiable disease reported by the school teachers.