[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Cardigan.

  • Cardigan (Wales) n 82058909.
Date:
1950
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    Dr. J. Rhys Davies, Te^ Cardigan 21. 1 Belmont, CARDIGAN August, 1951. BOROUGH OF CARDIGAN Medical Officer of Health's Report for 1950 To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Cardigan Borough Council.' . .< •. J. Gentlemen, I have the honour to present to you my Annual Report on the sanitary circumstances of the Borough and the health of the inhabitants during the year 1950° * • ’ * . * 1. GENERAL STATISTICS ! - •••-• • Area of Borough - 4,520 acres.,. .... -.a. • 1 • - •! ■ Population - 5,449. Number of Inhabited Houses - 1,117. • LdB Number of Families or separate occupiers (estimated) - 1,126. Rateable Value - £13,731. ■ Sum produced by a penny rate - £51. u !. - Social conditions remain as they were in the previous year. Cardigan and the' area is purely agricultural. There are no works or industries apart from six motor garages and five builders’ yards.. 2. VITAL STATISTICS ‘ , Live Births - 186 'This includes births at Cardigan Hospital. Live Birth Rate per annum per 1^000 of population - 53.9286. Deaths - 114. Rate per annum per 1,000 population - 33-053. I am able to a,t&-1>a* t' the health of the population during' the year was very good. ' ' .... .. e : -•} \ 3. HEALTH SERVICES ; V There are no facilities in the town or -near the town for the efficient isolation of cases of infectious diseases. All infectious cases are best dealt with by removal to Tanybwlch Isolation Hospital rather than be nursed in the patient home as is sometimes done attended .to by the patient’s doctor and Medical Officer of Health and the Sanitary Inspector. (i) Public Health Staff , ■■ Part-time Officers only. One Medical Officer of Health and one Sanitary Inspector. (ii) Nursing Facilities There is no change to report in the arrangements for the provision of general nursing. There are two fully trained nurses in the Borough One of these nurses attends to ailments in the patients’ home, and the other attends to midwifery cases only. (iii) Laboratory Facilities The arrangement continues with the Beck Laboratory, Swansea and the Emergency Public Health Laboratory Service at Aberystwyth and Carmarthen for the examination of clinical material, and the Public Analyst's Laboratory, Carmarthen, for the analysis of water end foodstuffs.