[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.

  • Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1918
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    INFECTIOUS DISEASES (PREVENTION) ACT, 1890. 357 Public Library and 14 School Library books were collected from infected houses and disinfected, and 2 books were destroyed. PREVALENCES OF ZYMOTIC SICKNESS DURING 1918. Notification of Cases of Dangerous Infectious Diseases.—The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, requires householders and medical men in attendance to notify cases of dangerous infectious diseases to the Sanitary Authority, and gives facilities for supplementing the statement of the mortality from zymotic diseases, month by month, as they were reported. The diseases which require to be notified to the Authority as ‘‘dangerous infectious diseases” are:— Small-pox. Scarlatina. Diphtheria. . Membranous Croup. Erysipelas. Cerebro Spinal Meningitis. f Typhus. Fevers 5 Typh&id- severs < ContillUed. C Relapsiug. Puerperal Septicaemia. Acute Poliomyelitis. Cholera. Measles and German Measles. The cases notified appear in the following return, showing that 1135 cases were notified during the year, being 630 more than the number notified last year, excluding Measles and German Measles. The following Table gives the number of Notifications of Dangerous Infectious Diseases in each month of the year. 1918. Smallpox Scarlatina Diphtheria & j Mcm. Croup | 1 P* Typhoid Puerperal Fever Fever Frysipelas Poliomyelitis Cerebro Spinal] Men. ri u a> c r—« o GQ a> •—* Z M Gern an Measles * i Total January ... • • 46 20 44 20 155 February .... 25 14 1 1 6 1 51 20 119 March . .. 88 19 1 1 4 1 97 56 217 April. • • 46 20 .. 3 288 68 425 May . 40 24 1 5 518 66 654 June . 35 12 3 359 30 439 July . 33 10 2 _ 1 • • • • 148 It 205 August. 79 14 4 6 48 5 156 September .. 114 17 1 3 30 165 October. 1G0 14 i 3 3 32 213 N ovember.... 128 13 5 6 8 2 162 December.... 131 10 •• i • * 4 ** 5 2 153 Total.. •• 875 187 •• 13 9 • • 49 • • 2 • • 1628 280 3043 %
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