[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridge Borough.

  • Cambridge (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridge Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A list of diseases ascertained to exist during the year, and the number of exclusions resulting is given below:— Disease ascertained by N arse. Excluded. Disease ascertained by Nurse. Excluded. | Disease ascertained by Nurse. Excluded. Scarlet Fever I 1 Toothache and 22 Sores 44 7 Bad Teeth Diphtheria 3 n J - Scabies 15 15 Enlarged *3 — M amps 12 12 Tonsils Chilblains 11 — Measles 02 ^ 419 Adenoids and 2 _ Other Skin - 5 1 Mouth Diseases Whooping 224 207 Breathers Cough Earache 11 Pediculi 93 36 Capitis Chicken Pox 97 97 Ear Discharge 3 — . Lice on cloth- 17 17 Diarrhoea 5 Enlarged 10 9 ing Glands Phthisis 4 —- Injury 48 -— Tubercular — — Erysipelas — —- Glands Abscess 5 — Influenza 4 — Defective Eyes 22 1 Malnutrition 1 — Febricula Inflamed Eyes 9 — Debility 2 — Rash 12 12 Eczema 8 —- Heart Disease 4 — Headache * 27 — Impetigo 34 23 Rheumatism 1 — Colds, Coughs 290 161 Ringworm 67 7 Other 12 12 and Bronchits (Head) Ringworm 48 36 No Apparent 79 — Sore Throat 95 7 HBody) disease The total number of visits paid were 5099 ; of these 1976 were first visits. These numbers suffici- ently emphasise the fact that a history of illness is only a small part of the nurse’s work, and that further work has to be undertaken. This consists not only in reporting progress in writing to the Medical Officer of Health in every case at least once a week, but in seeing that practitioners are consulted and the