[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcester City.

  • Worcester (England). City Council.
Date:
1917
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Credit: [Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act. The number of cases notified under this Act has been only 120, which is less than one-half of the yearly average of the last io years. Smallpox.—No case has been reported during the year. Scarlet Fever.—Only 31 cases were notified, the smallest number for the past 20 years. There were 27 primary and four secondary cases. Of the former, 18 were children attending schools, eight were children under school age, and one was an adult, a soldier, who came to his home ill. There was one death from this disease. Diphtheria.—There were 57 cases notified, one being a secondary case. There were 12 adults, 30 children of school age, and nine below school age, also five inmates of the General Infirmary. Three children were admitted to the General Infirmary for the operation of tracheotomy, but none of them recovered ; they were all under three years of age. Typhoid Fever.—During the year nine cases were notified, but two were withdrawn. There was no secondary infection in any case, nor wras there any relationship between the patients, who lived in widely different parts of the City.
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