[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Greasbrough U.D.C.

  • Greasbrough (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Greasbrough U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Among the causes of death—other than deaths of infants under one year -were Heart Disease, 4 ; Influenza, 3 ; Bron- chitis, 3 ; Pneumonia, 3 ; Pulmonary Tuberculosis, 3 ; Tuber- cular Meningitis, 1 ; Diarrhoea and Enteritis, 2 ; Appendicitis, 1. There is no one cause of death which appears to me to figure prominently, and which might be regarded as the result of some local cause. There have been no deaths from Notifiable Infectious Disease other than Tuberculous Disease, or from Measles. Infectious Diseases. There were in all 50 cases of Infectious Disease (including Tuberculous Disease) notified during the year. As is so often the case, Scarlet Eever takes the foremost place with 35 cases, 30 of these were removed to the Isolation Hospital at Wath, and in all cases the homes were disinfected. It is disappointing that after the cost of this isolation, which is considerable, there appears to be so little result, so far as reducing the number of cases is concerned. For the primary object of the maintenance of the Isolation Hospital is not the treatment of cases which have occurred, but the pre- vention of the spread of the disease, and it is disappointing to see one after another all the members of a family affected, and cases continually appearing in different parts of the District. There was not what can be called an epidemic during the year, and there does not appear to have been any particular centre from which the disease was disseminated, but cases have kept occurring in different and sometimes widely separate parts of the District. There has been some reason to apprehend that parents of children have not fully realised their duty and responsibility in this matter, and with my approval you issued a poster warning parents and guardians on the subject.