[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, West Oxfordshire Combined Districts and Banbury R.D.C. (Chipping Norton Borough, Witney U.D.C., Woodstock Borough, Chipping Norton R.D.C., Witney R.D.C., Banbury R.D.C.).

  • West Oxfordshire Combined Districts.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, West Oxfordshire Combined Districts and Banbury R.D.C. (Chipping Norton Borough, Witney U.D.C., Woodstock Borough, Chipping Norton R.D.C., Witney R.D.C., Banbury R.D.C.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1942 WEST OXFORDSHIRE COMBINED DISTRICTS 2 Carey Close, Five Mile Drive, Oxford. To the Mayors, Chairmen and Councillors of the Constituent Authorities. Gentlemen, I beg to submit to you my Annual Report for the West Oxfordshire Combined Districts for 1942, which has been compiled in accordance with the requirements of Circular 2773 issued by the Ministry of Health on 10th March, 1942, and Circular 2067 dated 19th July, 1940. These circulars state that reports are to be confined to essential and urgent matters which have affected public health during the year, especially outbreaks of infectious disease. The incidence of infectious disease in the area has again been low ; there have been no outbreaks of disease attributable to war conditions. Diphtheria immunisation was continued during the year. Arrange¬ ments have been made for this work to be done by the School Medical Officers in the case of school children ; in the case of children under 5 the work is carried out at the Child Welfare Centres, or may be done by any general practitioner under the scheme suggested by the Ministry in Circular 2753. \ There has been a decrease in the number of cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and a considerable decrease in the death rate from that disease. Tuberculosis. New Cases Deaths Pulmonary N on-Pulmonary Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary 1933 32 13 23 7 1934 32 18 19 7 1935 44 12 20 5 1936 25 12 30 7 1937 28 10 14 2 1938 27 18 13 1 1939 25 14 19 1 1940 37 19 12 5 1941 47 22 21 4 1942 41 30 14 7 There has been some improvement in the Infant Mortality figures in the majority of the districts. The following table give the figures during the past 10 years.