[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Bebington Borough.

  • Bebington (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Bebington Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    births (live and still). The average figure for England and Wales for 1942 is 2.01. This figure is again j)henoinenal. Eegarding the scheme for Diphtheria Immunisation, there were 1,914 children of all ages up to 15 years immunised during the year 1942 (968 under 5 years, and 946 over 5 but under 15 years), as compared with the figure of 1,440 for 1941, showing an increased number of 474* immunisations carried out in 1942 over 1941. The figure of 1,914 children immunised during 1942 includes 1,199 children of all ages immunised at clinics during the year by your Medical Officer of Health, and so far as records show 13 children only were immunised by private doctors. I can only presume immunisation now being made so public and demanded, that the general practitioners must have immunised more, but have sent me no returns. It is noted that 17 adults^were also immunised during the year. Immunisation against the Enteric group of fevers is still afforded, but no advantage has been taken of it during the year 1942, In continuation of the work under the Scabies Order, 1941, a battery of 6 baths was completed at Plymyard, which is in good working order. Treatment at the A.E.P. Cleansing..Centre at Brackenwood is also afforded for this eomplaint, but owing to shortage of staff is not always available. During the year 1942, 180 cases were treated and 1,412 treatments given. These treatments have been carried out voluntarily by the Civil Defence full-time and‘part-time staff of the Mobile Unit Station at Plymyard. The Civil Defence staff at Brackenwood continue to carry out treatment, but on a very small scale owing to the “cut” (whole-time Civil Defence personnel) which took ])lace in the First Aid Post at Brackenwood. A diphtlieria epidemic of unprecedented local magnitude began in a neighbouring authority towards the end of the year, and was dealt with 90% by the Wirral Joint Isolation Hospital and an Annexe Hos])ital within your Borough, but so far the Borough of Bebington cannot be said to have become infected to any notable degree, which I put down to the population of the Borough in its susceptible age gioup being much earlier immunised; also, so far as Bebington Borough was concerned, any question of the starting of a sympathetic epidemic