[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Cockermouth U.D.C.
- Cockermouth (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1946
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Cockermouth U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Non-Notifiable Acute Infectious Diseases.—Epidemics usually occur in conjunction with epidemics in the districts adjoining. Influenza was present to a moderate extent—iinainly during the Spring and Winter months. One death was recorded from this disease, making the Influenza death rate .20 per 1,000 of the population Jis compared with .21 in 19-15. The rate (1946) for all England and Wales Avas .15. Ee Measles and Whooping Cough (which became notifiable as from Ist November, 1939).—There was only one case of Measles (in March) and none of Whooping Cough notified in 1946. No deatlr was attributed to eithei' disease. The case rates and deatli rates were, therefore, per 1,000 of the population—Measles .20, aii.] nil, and Whooping Cough nil and nil. (England and Wales—Measles 3.02 and 0.00, and Whooping Cough 2.28 and'0.02). SCHOOL CLOSURES. Duiing 1946 no elementary school in Cockermouth Avas closed on account of infectious disease.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29118268_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
