[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough.

  • Peterborough (England). County Council.
Date:
1918
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Credit: [Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thin vaooino will bo provid-d froo of charge lr* tho Iii*\tntrv to Hodieal of Ih-alth fob ■’.iritribuMon to *v-act5 tionorc who retire it. Tho general ouinion among practitioners at tho present tino in that thin prophylactic treatment in uncertain. It in >robabl-r harmless. in regard to worrsora! •\r*ov.-tnti on of infection, it ia rcconnonded that tho throat bo r.arglod with Lin.Sodao Chlorinatos and that a solution of oormon nc.lt and union ho on iff del up tho none from tho hollow of the hand two or throe tinea a cla^. Uhon an attach in acquired tho onl- tiling in to r,o to bed. and boon thor*©. Tho room should bo well v rutilated. In houses who.ro those anonitioa can not bo obtained tho Local Sanitary Authority in urged to provide accomodation in tho empty wards of an isolation or other Ilomital. For th.o better equineod housos domiciliary nursing should bo • wovidod in connection with local nursing associations. In cases of groat emergency Countw and Municipal Health. Visitors could bo used for this nurnono• Anot]ier valuable suggestion nado by tho Ministry is that wonon should bo enlisted as Hone holes, and that special kitchens bo in-.revised whoro invalid food could bo prepared, Dr. Collins remarks that two outbreaks occurred, one in July which was slight, only causing ton deaths, and tho other in JTovombor and December which wan sovoro. Tho disoaso was cliaraotined by vomiting and none blooding. Three cases of or©mature labour in women affected with influenza pro'od fatal. One of tho deaths under five was tr,at of an infant nronaturol** born, tho mother also dying. In tho Peterborough Aural District thorn wore also two outbreaks. I'o eat.- s wore recorded in the early sum or but 22 worsens succumbed in th.o late autumn epidemic. Dr. Groonwood .also •■•ncordc two opidenies in July and ITovombor in the Darnack Aural District. Tho former was not serious but the latter was complicated by sovoro broncho-nnounonia. Tho principal causes of death, otb.or than influenza wore Cancer and malignant disoaso * - Tuberculosis ( all fowls) Iloart Disease. Dronchitin• Pneumonia ( all forms) 75 70 5D 50 45
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