[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Swinton & Pendlebury Borough.
- Swinton and Pendlebury (England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Swinton & Pendlebury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I’neiuiioniii: There were 39 cases notified in comparison with 52 in 1937. The number of deaths from all forms of the disease was 15. As reported in previous Annual Reports, the notification of pneumonia is generally unsatisfactory. Dysenterj ; No case occurred. Infectious Disease notified from Institutions: Notifications received from the Pendlebury Children’s Hospital were as follows : Diphtheria . 36 Scarlet Fever. 37 Enteric Fever. 1 Ac. Ant. Poliomyelitis . 1 Erysipelas . 2 Cerebro-spinal Fever . 13 Pneumonia . 6 Ophthalmia Neonatorum. 1 (b) Tuberculosis. Forty-four new cases of tuberculosis were notified during the year, of which 36 were pulmonary and 8 non-pulmonary. Early in the year the Department’s tuberculosis register was revised with the help of the County Tuberculosis Department, and at 31st December, 1938, there were 202 known cases of tuberculosis in the Borough, 134 being pulmonary and 68 non-pulmonary. A comparison of the primary notifications of all forms of the disease during the past five years is as follows : 1938 1937 1936 1935 1934 Number of cases notified 44 70 39 45 51 Number of deaths 22 20 20 20 33 Case incidence per 1,000 population . 1.09 1.76 1.00 1.16 1.33 Mortality per 1,000 })0])ulation . 0.55 0.50 0.51 0.52 0.86 05](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30152963_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
