[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Maryport U.D.C.

  • Maryport (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Maryport U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following is a Table comparing Infectious Diseases (ex¬ cluding Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Chickenpox and Pneumonia) notified in 1937, with those in the previous eleven years : — Disease. 1937 Smallpox Diphtheria 8 Scarlet Fever 20 Typhoid : inch Para-Typhoid) 1 Puerperal Pyrexia Puerperal Fever Erysipelas 4 Ac. Poliomyelitis Encephalitis Lethargica C.-S. Meningitis Tuberculosis:— Pulmonary 7 Other Forms 3 1936 1935 l934 1933 1932 1931 492 21 10 12 17 11 10 10 1930 1929 1928 1927 1926 1 9 2 1 11 26 3 4 5 4 27 13 ii 7 4 14 6 8 3 18 14 6 2 10 3 7 5 6 x3 13 2 11 5 No action has been taken under Section 62 of the Public Health Act, 1925, regarding the compulsory removal to hospital or institution. No infringment has yet occurred regarding cases coming within the scope of Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925. Pamphlets relating to certain diseases, e.g. Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, etc., are distributed when considered advisable. Instructions regarding the common notifiable diseases are given where each case occurs, along with a special warning under Section 126 of the Public Health Act, 1875. No artificial immu¬ nisation scheme has been carried out. Non-Notifiable Acute Infectious Diseases. — Acute non- notifiable infectious diseases such as Influenza, Measles, and Whooping Cough occur in epidemic form at the same time more or less as in neighbouring localities. Influenza was epidemic and widespread, particularly in the earlier months ; 3 deaths wrere attributed to this disease, so that the Influenza death rate per 1000 of the population was 0.2b, that for all England and Wales being 0.45. Measles was also epidemic during 1937, and 3 deaths from this disease occurred. The death rate from Measles per 1000 of the population was therefore o‘26, that for all England and Wales being 0.02. Measles deaths for past 10 years :— Year—1937 1946 1935 1934 1933 1932 1941 1930 1929 1928 Deaths— 3 nil 1 nil nil 7 1 nil nil nil