[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Newmarket U.D.C.

  • Newmarket (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Newmarket U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * Typhoid Fever. One case was notified end for a time wa3 doubtful as the bacillus was net recovered from the dejecta* On further examination the germ was found in the blood and the character of the illness confirmed. The patient had travelled about the county a good deal in the course of his duties and may have been infected by drinking infected water in one of the surrounding villages. Two case? of this disease have occurred in fifteen years. The one reported last year halving contracted the illness in the South of France from infected shell fish. piphthexia-. Two cases were notified, one bacteriologically was not Diphtheria. No source of infection could be discovered for the Second. There has been a decided reduction of this complaint during the last five years. In 1922 twenty-five cases were notified. ]£.£. No use has been made of the Schick or Dick Tests for Diphtheria or Scarlet Fever. Tuberculosis. Fourteen Cases were notified, Twelve Pulmonary and two N on-Pulmonary. i.e., One of the Peritoneum and one of the Moningis, the latter proved by bacteriological examination. New Cases.. Deaths.. .Age Pulmcnaiy. Mon-Pulmonary. Pulmonary. Non-Fulmonory. Periods.. M. VI M. F. 11. F, M. F. 0 1 - m mm — - - «• mm* 5 mm - -.. mm 10 - - 1 mm 1 - mm • - 15 1 1 - - - 1 1 - 20 # - 1 - 1 - 1 - 25 1 1 - mm - m - - 35 1 1 mm ■ • mm mm • - mm • 45 1 - m - - • mm 55 3 1 - - 3 *• - 65 & over — - - - mm Totals 7 5 1 1 4 2 1 (5)