[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Bromsgrove R.D.C.

  • Bromsgrove (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Bromsgrove R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREVALENCE--OF .-AND -GQNTRQL-QVEP v -INFECTIOUSAND QTIiERDISEASES Not if ia'TpTe 'Disease s T94'7; - \ 1 , 1 DISEASE Corrected . 1 Admitted Deaths...,,.., 1 ■ Not if icat ions.. j .to-ilo-spital I Smallpox - 4 1 Dlphthef la - r; » 1 i. Scar let Fever ■ c 24 .7 — \ : Measles 250 . .....4 - ■ — - -I rdAThobpirig” Cough 62 2 ~ I 1 Typhoid Fever ‘ - ~ j i Paratyphoid Fever 1 - - I Dysentery 1 - - 1 Cerebrospinal Fever 2 .2 1 j Acute Poliomyelitis 5 ■- -6 1 ! Encephalitis 1 1 - i Acute Pneumonia 13 '■ - 7 j Erysipelas 4 . . •-2 - i Puerperal pyrexia - 1 1. Ophthalmia Neonatorum - - 1 Malaria - i - TOTAL 363 ^ 29 i 10 The'figures given in the Table are for corrected notifications, i.e. confirmed cases of disease. The figure for den.ths from Pneumonia is not relatable to the figure for notifications; pneumonia is not infrequently entered as the cause of death in cases where there has been no notificationo Smallpox. - No cases were notified during the year, and no contacts wore kept under surveilLanoG. Diphtheria - F’ive cases of suspected diphtheria v/ere admitted t.o.,., , hospital, none of which were confirmed. This is the first year', in which there has been no confirmed cases of diphtheria, as far' as can be ascertained from, what records wo have, and-it undoubtedly confirms the value of diphtheria immunisation. . . Diphtheria Immunisation. The number of children who completed a course of immunisation during, the year 1947 was as follows;- Primary Immunisation under 5 years old 192 5-14 years o3-d ; 28 210 Reinforcing (**Boostor ) injection -354 The ”immunisation state” of children in the Rural District on 31st December 1947 was as follov/s;- -19-