[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Penzance U.D.C. / Borough.

  • Penzance (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Penzance U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [5] Factories and Workshops. There are in Penzance lo factories and 71 workshops and work-places. Fifty-two inspections were made during the year. Housing. There are 3,500 inhabited houses in the Borough. No new houses were completed during the year. No houses for the working classes were erected during the year. There are undoubted cases of overcrowding, due to shortage of houses. The unfit houses are chiefly back to back and single back dwellings. No action has been possible on account of lack of housing accommodation : the same remark applies to unhealthy areas. No action was taken under the Housing Acts. Sanitary Administration. The staff consists of a Sanitary Inspector and a part-time Health Visitor. There are two Ambulances in the Borough : one in connection with the Isolation Hospital, and one for general cases, controlled by the Local Branch of the St. John Ambulance. Dealings with Infectious Disease. The following cases of Notifiable Infectious Disease occurred during the year:— Typhoid Fever — Scarlet Fever 5 Diphtheria 28 Phthisis 14 Encephalitis Lethargica ... I 48 There were three deaths from Diphtheria. = During the year the Council undertook the cost of 71 Bacteriological Examinations for Diphtheria, and one for Tubercle Bacillus, and supplied free Antitoxin in 13 cases. Eighty-five visits were paid to infected houses; 49 houses and 44 lots of bedding and clothing were disinfected by the Corporation. Twenty-one cases of Infectious Disease were treated at the Borough Isolation Hospital. The County Tuberculosis Officer visits the Borough weekly, and holds a Clinic at the West Cornwall Infirmarv. The Cornwall County Council undertake the diagnosis and treatment of Venereal Diseases at their Tuckingmill Clinic. No Vaccinations or Re-Vaccinations were performed by me during the year.