[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Amble U.D.C.

  • Amble by the Sea (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1919
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Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Amble U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following rates tor Amble are illustrative:- 1916—59.4; 1917—62.5; 1918—90.9; 1919—58.2. Of these six deaths, four were due to congenital debility, one to whoop-' ing cough and one to an ill defined cause. For the eighth year in succesion there has not been a death from epidemic diarrhoea, a tribute to the effective sanitary condition of the district. INFECTIOUS DISEASE. During the year 118 cases of infectious disease were notified, an increase of 65 cases over 1918 due to measles being epidemic. They were asfollows:- Measles 100 Encephalitis Lethargica i Diphtheria 7 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 2 Erysipelas 3 Opthalmia Neonatorum i Pneumonia 2 Scarlet Fever 2 Measets were epidemic from August to the beginning of December. There was one death due to complication with menin^gitis. There was no school closure. The fatal case of diphtheria occurred in a child of 2 years. The other cases of this disease were of a milder type. Three occurred in the same street, two of these in houses having a common yard. This yard contained a de- fective privy midden in a bad sanitary condition. A notice to have it converted into a W. C. was served on the owner at the end of the year. There is no doubt that these cases originated in this yard and that the third case had been in contact with one or other of them. The remaining houses were in a sanitary condition. The Erysipelas cases were idiopatliic. The solitary case of Encephalitis Lethargica aged 4 years, proved fatal. One case of Scarlet Fever occ- urred in June and one in August, They were strictly isola- ted and'no further cases were reported.