[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Ross-on-Wye U.D.C.

  • Ross-on-Wye (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Ross-on-Wye U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    consumption haa ’’soon ccxriod o«-t during the year, but meat and other foods exposed for sale in the town rre inspected as thoroughly as possible* The 3anitary Inspector attends the markets held in the town and also carries out inspection of meat at the Central Abattoir in Hereford City* Pood found to be Unfit for Human Consumption during the Year:- * II ■«■■■! ■ i» I. ■ ...wm ■■■ m ■■ '» II. i -mm m — * *. mm ■ ■ mm mm. ~aimmm. ■ ■ ■ ■ —m mam i|U. ,m ■■ ■ i i — »i ■ n 70 pounds Dates* 11.3 stones Pish* 16J- pounds Ham* 30 six-pound tins Pork Lunchoon Meat* 7 two & half-pound tins Pork Luncheon Meat* 248 tuns miscellaneous Foodstuffs* 3 pounds Margarine# 47 pounds Rice* 3 pounds Jan* 126-|: pounds Butter* *12 pounds Sausage# 263 pounds Beef* 23 pounds Mutton* 12 pounds Brawn* 6f pounds Duck Galatine# 21 pounds Bacon* 1 carcase Poultry* 2 dozen Meat Pies* 1 tinned Turkey* SECTION P* PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASE; The incidence of notifiable disease during the year was very low; only 26 notifications were received* The most frequent infection was measles, 14 cases were notified all of which except two occurred in the fourth quarter. There were three notifications of diphtheria, one occurring in a female child of five years who had not previously been immunised* Only two cases of scarlet-fever were brought to the notice of the Department* Notifiable Pisease during the Year 1944* Disease. Total Cases Notified* Cases admitted to Hospital* r— ■ ******* \ ' ' ■ Deaths# Measles 14 Whooping Cough 1 ** - pneumonia 3 ■ ** 2 Scarlet Fever 2 2 - Erysipelas 2 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1 - - Diphtheria 3 1 L- mmrnmmmm —- - .1 a* L— ... -„ Analysis of Total Coses Notified According to Age* Disease* Groups# —— 1.7*-- ft, / j> Totals# Un¬ der 1 1 + 2+ 3. 4+ 5+ ,, 10+ 15+ 20+ 35+ 45+i 65+ Measles , _ 1 1 «* 4 6 1 1 44 14 Whopping Cough ■w - 1 M AW «* *4 •w *• A«a 1 pneumonia 1 - «W mm — mm 1, 1 «M 3 • Scarlet Fever •m - - mu 1 - - - 1 a* * 2 i Erysipelas - - - -a* •m - - m!9 1 1 MB 2 j Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1 - - - mm - - -* •4 ** 1 Diphtheria ■ 1 - 1 i - 1 3 - ! .. - . 1 - -r j 1 i i t <