[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Cheltenham Borough.

  • Cheltenham (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1904
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    large percentage of cases, nor at any regular period of the convalescence, and sometimes occur after every other «y sympton has disappeared. It is not of any use pretending to be able to avoid an accasional conveyance hack to the home of infection by these cases. That is a slight risk that lias to be run in connection with the isolation of Scarlet Fever. Last year however this risk in Cheltenham was certainlv reduced * i to a minimum, as out of the 101 cases discharged during the year from the hospital cured of Scarlet Fever, we did not get one return case either from the house, or from any known connection or relationship. Of the 59 cases of Diphtheria notified 28 or nearly half were treated in hospital. The hospital treatment of diphtheria is of great service, the comfortable treatment of cases in the fine hospital wards contrasting acutely with the conditions under which cases are treated in poor houses. Practically all the severe cases that occurred in the poorer houses in the town last year were sent to hospital. Typhoid Fever cases also go to the Fever Hospital, whenever cases occur that require admission. Further information concerning the Delancey Hospital is contained in the Annual Report of the Hospital written by the Medical Officer and Secretary.