[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, St Helens County Borough.

  • St. Helens (Merseyside, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, St Helens County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    III.—INFECTIOUS DISEASES. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS*—The outstanding features of the year were the marked incidence of both measles and cerebro¬ spinal fever, whereas scarlet fever, which had been very prevalent during 1939, showed very considerable decrease. There was a slight increase in the number of cases of whooping cough. The measles epidemic lasted throughout practically the whole year, and though cerebro-spinal fever never showed signs of epidemic occurrence there was a steady incidence throughout the year. Table 2 shows the total number of cases notified during the year, the total number of deaths which occurred, and the numbers admitted to the Corporation Hospitals. Table 3 gives the age distribution of the cases notified, and Table 1 the age distribution of the deaths which occurred. The number of cases notified during each week of the year is shown in Table 4, and the number of notifications each year during the past 10 years is seen in Table 5. Table 2. Infectious Diseases, 1940.—Total number of cases notified, number of cases admitted to hospital, and the total deaths. DISEASE Notifications received Cases admitted to hospital Total Deaths Smallpox . — — Scarlet Fever . 221 206 — Diphtheria . 287 287 18 Measles . 3057 27 3 Whooping Cough . 403 2 3 Enteric Fever . — —• Dysentery . 9 —• —■ Erysipelas . 34 4 1 Pneumonia . 123 3 20 Typhus Fever . — —■ — Puerperal Pyrexia . 15 8 —• Ophthalmia Neonatorum . 9 — — Poliomyelitis . 1 1 1 Polio-Encephalitis 1 — 1 Cerebro-Spinal Fever . 45 40 7 Malaria . » —