[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Cirencester R.D.C.

  • Cirencester (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Cirencester R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    others being evacuees who had been ill before they reached the area. One patient was in the R.A.F., and came here after his discharge. A woman evacua- ted to Fairford was admitted to a nursing home there, where she afterwards died. One patient, aged 43, with disease of the neck glands, was notified from an Oxford hospital. Another R.A.F man was discharged with disease in the intestines, but he seemed to have made a good recovery after treatment. A child re- ported from Whelford was for many months in a home in Gloucester, where he finally died, but the the death was not certified as due to Tubercle. Two patients were treated at Standish House. In a recent investigation by a Professor of Bacteriology it was stated that 1,500 to 2,000 deaths per annum from tubercle were due to bovine milk infection, and that 5—10% of farms are sending out milk containing the germ. BAUNTON HOSPITAL. Only 88 patients were treated here during the year, and of these 25 were whooping cough, 36 mumps and chicken pox 13. Nine patients had 2 or more diseases, mostly from various baby convalescent hos- tels. From this area there were 59 patients, and from the Urban 15. DIPHTHERIA PROPHYLAXIS. The campaign has been carried on with renewed energy, and at the middle of 1943 there were 1,696 under 5 years,and 2077 aged from 5-16 years inoculat- ed,including those done in private schools, and those done privately by medical men. These numbers in- clude many children who have left school, and also a