[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Flintshire County Council.

  • Flintshire (Wales). County Council. no2003052036.
Date:
1938
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Flintshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    58/112 (page 56)
    it will be gathered from the foregoing that 11 cases were not brought to the Authority’s notice until after the death of the respective patients. TUBERCULOSIS (PREVENTION)—The application of the Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1925, or of Section 62 of the Public Health Act, 1925, was not found necessary during the year under review. Both these provisions have been outlined in previous Reports and are constantly kept in mind. The manner in which efforts are made towards securing a tubercle-free milk supply is outlined in Section E of this Report, while in Table 29 will be found a statement showing that the District Tuberculosis Physician, during the year, examined and advised no fewer than 62 persons who had been in contact with the disease. A summary of the arrangements made in the various Districts in the County in connection with the disinfection of the premises, bedding, etc. of persons suffering from Tuberculosis appeared in my 1932 Annual Report (page 44). TUBERCULOSIS (TREATMENT)—As I have previously stated, the treat- ment of persons suffering from Tuberculosis is a duty which, in Flintshire, devolves upon the County Council. In common with all the other County Councils in Wales, and also the County Boroughs, the Council have arranged for the executive work to be carried out on their behalf by the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association—a voluntary body whose work since its incorporation by Royal Charter in 1912 has been characterised by the most praiseworthy efficiency and thoroughness, A report recently issued giving the residts of the Association’s analysis of tuberculosis mortality in Wales, for the years 1930-1933, is interesting in this connection. It says that “ the two features of the statistics for Flint- shire which call for reference are—(1) that the County has the lowest mor- taliity in Wales (719), and (2) that no Urban or Rural District in Flintshire has a mortality figure as high as that for Wales as a whole (1,001 per million population).” I have described the working of the Association’s arrangements in pre- vious Reports, and in the present Report mention has been made of the two local Institutions provided by the Association—one within the County and one just outside its borders—which primarily cater for the needs of this Countv and its neighbour, Denbighshire. I refer, of course, to the Meatlowslea Hospital, Penylfordd, and the North Wales Sanatorium, Llan- gwyfan.