[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

Glasgow (Scotland)

Date:: 1959

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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Found on image 38 / 410 (page 36)… Disease— Incidence, 1938-1959 ... ... ... ... ••• 173 Congenital Syphilis, etc. ... ... ... ... 175 Venereal Disease in Seamen, etc. ... ... ... 176 Defaulters ... ... ... ... ••• 177 VII. Mental Services— Boarded-out Patients ... ... ... ••• ••• 179 Lunacy Certification ... ... ... ... ... IS 1 Certificatio...
Found on image 179 / 410 (page 177)…onic Venereal Disease 41 59 114 Other Diseases, including Soft Sore, Septic Balanitis, etc. ... 778 129 941 Non-Venereal 1,668 341 2,016 Follow-up of Defaulters— With the rapid treatment of both acute syphilis and acute gonorrhoea, a fairly high proportion of the patients default before completing treatment. E...
Found on image 179 / 410 (page 177)…nd acute gonorrhoea, a fairly high proportion of the patients default before completing treatment. Efforts have been made to obtain the attendance of defaulters by follow-up letters and by personal visits of the health visitors in the cases of females and the senior attendants in the case of males. During the...
Found on image 180 / 410 (page 178)…e Unit most patients have received sufficient treatment to reduce the danger of spread of infection, Contact Tracing.—The contact tracing, as well as defaulter follow- up work, is carried out by the staff of the male ad hoc centres in respect of males and by the health visitors attached to the female centres...
Found on image 272 / 410 (page 270)…or 74-00 per cent, last year. This year 10 (6-31 per cent.) of the samples failed both in count and coliform compared with 15 of 200 or 7-5 per cent. Defaulters were visited and their methods checked and advice given. Of the 163 informal samples taken, 123 were subjected to both chemical and bacteriological e...
Found on image 322 / 410 (page 320)…ceedings against some 64 families in one of the housing schemes for failing to cleanse the common close or stairs leading to the houses. As usual the defaulters in this case were a small minority of the tenants but their actions or failure to act affects every one of the neighbours who may be living in the pr...
Found on image 330 / 410 (page 328)…tions were issued to the authors of nuisances in terms of the statutes involved. Failure to comply necessitated the issue of 130 statutory notices to defaulters. Court action was taken in 12 instances, 11 of which were successful. The exception was a case involving the absence of a sanitary convenience in a sh...
Found on image 337 / 410 (page 335)…hey were of a minor character and a verbal warning was all that was necessary to put matters right. It was, however, necessary to issue 20 notices to defaulters. The number of factories at present on the register can be seen in the following table. The large number of factories removed during the year is by re...

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INFECTIONS DUE TO ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE AND L. CANICOLA. Infective Jaundice (Leptospirosis Icterohaemorrhagica). A case of Weil’s Disease was notified on 27.5.59. The patient, a man aged 17 years, was employed in an iron foundry where a moderate rat infestation was found. He was admitted to a fever hospital on 3.5.59 as a case of cerebrospinal meningitis. The main symptoms were shivering, vomiting and generalised pains in the body and limbs. The Schuffner Test was reported as positive (L. icterohaemorrhagiae) 1/300 and five days later 1/30,000. A serviceman aged 22 years came to Glasgow on 19.12.58 on leave and on arrival he was feeling ill. On 24.12.58 he was admitted to a fever hospital as a case of streptococcal sore throat. About 26.12.58 the patient developed jaundice and also signs of renal failure and uraemia. Other clinical features were myalgia, herpangina and scleral injection. On 31.12.58 he was transferred to an infirmary to be treated by the artificial kidney. He died there on 3.1.59, the cause of death being stated to be “ Hepatitis and Kidney Failure.” Three Schuffner tests were negative in the fever hospital and a fourth taken on the day of his death was also negative. Virus studies were negative. The pathologist reported that the macroscopic appearances at post mortem were suggestive of Weil’s Disease. The evidence is against this having been a case of Weil’s disease. Leptospira Canicola Infection. A woman of 19 years was admitted to a fever hospital on 20.7.59 as a case of cerebrospinal fever from an address in Glasgow, having arrived here on 13.7.59, the day of sickening, from an address in North- ern Ireland. She was found to have a lymphocytic meningitis. She was dismissed from hospital on 17.8.59 quite well, her litres for Leptospira icterhaemorrhagiae and L. canicola being both 1/1,000. I his case was recorded in Northern Ireland. A man aged 22 years was admitted to a fever hospital on 21.11.59, said to be suffering from cerebro-spinal fever. The sickening date was approximately 16.11.59. A diagnosis of Canicola fever was arrived at. The original Schuffner test of 21.11.59 was negative. The test of 8.12.60 was positive L. icterohaemorrhagiae 1 in 100 ; L. canicola 1 in 30,000.