[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough.

  • Chesterfield (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The number of cases in the West Ward nearly equalled that of the rest of the town. The number of cases in each month from the beginning of the year were:—5, 14, 17, 12, 13, 6, 10, 11, 6, 7, 6, 8. There is no doubt that the reduced mortality is principally due to the increased and increasing use of antidiphtheritic serum and not to the disease be- ing of a milder type than formerly. The serum is provided free of charge to registered medical practitioners for use within the borough. Scarlet Fever.—Houses infected, 219; cases, 272 ; death, 1. The number of cases was 2\ times that of the decennial average and the largest in recent years except the 291 of 1904. The case mortality was .4 per cent, as compared with the average 3.9, showing the type of the disease to have been a mild one. i More than half the cases were in the West Ward* The following were the number of cases in each month from the beginning of the year :—12, 9, 10, 14, 15, 30, 35, 22, 26, 27, 50, 22. The majority of the cases in June appeared to be connected with the Infant Departments of the Schools in the West Ward, in one of which a