[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council.

  • Anglesey (Wales). County Council. no2003102100.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    will be found interspersed in the body of the report, certain paragraphs have been relegated to an appendix (pages 79-84). These contain information already well known to the committee, but for the sake of the record have not been omitted. Some observations on ‘‘the prevention of illness, the care and after-care of persons suffering from illness” (Section 28) have been given a place in this introductory letter. Vital Statistics. The birth rate is substantially the same as last year, and the population of the county shows little change. The stillbirth rate rose slightly, while the infant mortality rate fell. Ihe wastage of infant life is a matter which still exercises us and was the subject of thorough investigation during the year by a strong sub-committee. One maternal death occurred during the year. This was only the second death directly ascribable to pregnancy since 1946. Of the infectiotis diseases the one notified most often was whooping cough, although this, like measles, was less prevalent than in 1951. Once again it is gratifying to report that nothing of great moment occurred in the field of epidemiolog}^ It is now three years sinre a case of diphtheria occurred in the county, and six years have elapsed since a death occurred from this once dread disease. Xhe Prevention ol Jllne.ss, Care and Atter-care. Specific duties have hitherto been imposed on the authority with respect to one disease only—tuberculosis—and elsewhere m the report (pages 24 to 30) an account is given of how those duties are being discharged. Compared with the concerted attempts being made to prevent tuberculosis and to care for the sufferers from the disease, little is being done for persons afflicted with other illnesses.