[Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, South Shields County Borough.

  • South Shields (Durham, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1906
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Credit: [Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, South Shields County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IG Thirty deaths occurred from tliis disease, a number equivalent to an annual death-rate of 0.27 per l,0t)0 of the population. This rale has not been exceeded since 1891. One hundred and forty-nine houses were infected, and the following Table shews the number of looms, and the persons under and over fifteen years of age in these houses :— I 2 Rooji.'' 3 4 5 and over. Totals. ■ Nuinlier of Houses. 2 35 34 • 38 40 149 Persons under 15 years .. (i 121 08 105 105 435 Persons over 15 vears.... 4 7»i 102 115 140 437 Deaths from Diphtheria . 0 10 0 0 2 30 The large number of persons exposed to infection, and the fact that twenty-eight of the deaths occurred in houses of not more than four rooms, shows the urgent need of hospitab treatment for this disease. It is almost hopeless^to attempt to treat a severe case of Diphtheria in a small tenemented house. The jiatient needs skilled uursing, and the danger to the others in the house is veiy serious. In seventeen instances, a second inmate of the house contracted the disease. We cannot say how many of the one hundied and forty-nine primary cases were due to defective isolation somewhere else. Puerperal Fever.—Only one case of Puerperal Fever was noti¬ fied, and only one death occurred from this disease dining the year. Erysipelas. -^One hundied and four ca.ses were notified ; of these seven died. One other death from this disease occurring in the Harton Workhou.se to a South Shields inmate is included in our returns. Cholera and Plague.—Xo ca.ses of these diseases were notified during the year. Diarrhoea. —The number of deaths in the comsecutive months of the year from this disease among children twenty-four months old ami under were 3, 3, 1, 0, 0, 2, 7, 9, -17, 18, 8, and 3 respec¬ tively ; thus the greatest number of deaths occurred in September and October. This disea.se is usually most prevalent during the third (|uarter of the year, but in 1906 it was with us rather later than usual. The circumstances attending the deaths in these 101