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

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

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    REPORT ANNUAL of the Medical Officer of Health for the Lothing!and Rural District for the Year 1942. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have great pleasure in presenting you with my Annual Report for the year 1942« It has been reduced in size from motives of economy. A. Extracts from Vital Statistics, 1942. Birth rate per 1000 population 19*29 Still Births per 1000 live & still births 30*3 Death rate per 1000 population 16.88 Death rate of Infants under 1 year of age All Infants per 1000 live births 70*3 Legitimate infants per 1000 1egitimate births 73* 8 Illegitimate Infants per 1000 illegitimate births Nil. Deaths from Puerperal Causes Puerperal Sepsis 0. Other puerperal causes 0. Deaths from Cancer 28. ;i Measles (all ages) 0. Whooping Cough (all ages). 0. '• Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 0* 1941 England & Wales 17.6 1942. 15.8 32,4 14.77 11.6 58.14 49- 53.9 117.6 \o. '0. 23. 0. 0. 3, I INFECTIOUS DISEASES were The following notifieati 30 compared>wi;oh 28 las ons were received during the year, t year. They were as follows There Scarlet; Fever ; 27 Diphtheria 0 Opthalmia Neonatorum 1 Puerperal Pyrexia 1 Paratyphoid B 0 Erysipelas 1 Scarlet. Fever. B1undeston (1), (1), Corner!eyton vj) F~ 1 ri ;■ 1 ■; ed f rom the n (}' O r) y* ucid. in jw- v 0 - j (2) Cove 1 Bound (1). Peydon (5), uigford (1) and Wroutham (2). They were notified in the following months-- March (3) April (1), June (6) t July (4);. August (2), September (1), October (5), November'(3) and December (2), All were mild cases with the exception of one who was infected elsewheret One house had 3 oases and four houses had 2 cases each* Six cases were removed to Hospital. Diphtheria. was fc”^'3 * The only cast reported was removed to Hospital and / V ga11ve.