[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Blyth U.D.C.

  • Blyth (Northumberland, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Blyth U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Notifiable Infectious Diseases. During the year 194 cases of notifiable infectious diseases were reported as occurring in your area. This number as compared with 633 cases reported in 1914 shows a very marked reduction. The numbers of each naval, are as follows^:— disease : civil. military Civil. Military, Naval. Scarlet Fever 51 10 1 Typhoid Fever 7 1 Diphtheria 18 8 2 Erysipelas 19 2 Puerperal Fever 1 Ophthalmia Neanatorum 13 Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) . 41 Tuberculosis (other organs) . 20 170 18 6 Scarlet Fever.—-The e51 civil cases were distributed : South Ward ... 4 East Ward ... 27 West Ward ... 18 New Delaval Ward... 2 Total ... 51 Of the 62 cases reported—3 civil, 10 military, and 1 Port Sanitary case were removed to the Port Sanitary Isolation Hospital, all of whom made a complete recovery and were discharged cured. Enteric or Typhoid Fever.—Of the 8 cases reported— 7 were civil, and 1 Port Sanitary case. The civil cases were distributed as under :— South Ward ... 2 East Ward ... 3 West Ward ... 3 Total ... 8 3 civilians and 1 sailor were removed to Hospital, and in 2 civil cases from the West Ward the disease proved fatal.