[Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Congleton Borough.

  • Congleton (England). Borough Council
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Congleton Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lO Aleat and other Foods.— 7'otal amount of meat destroyed was 93,848 lbs. Approximately three-fifths of this meat was taken from casualty animals, and the total weight destroyed also includes all offals. Killing is done here not only for the Borough, but also for a large portion of the Congleton Rural District, and other districts. No cases of food poisoning were notified. SECTIO.W F. Prevalence of and Control over Infectious Diseases. 109 cases of Scarlet Fever were notified, after a period of closure of the Elementary and Sunday Schools together with exclusion of children of school age from the Cinemas, the epidemic rapidly abated though cases continued sporadically to occur. 204 cases of Measles were notified, being epidemic from the beginning of January until the end of February. The cases were mainly of a mild type and no deaths occurred. The following tables show the number of cases of infectious disease notified during the past year, together with the number of cases admitted to hospital and the total number of deaths from each of these diseases.
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