[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council.
- Monmouthshire County Council
- Date:
- 1941
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PREVALENCE OF., AND CONTROL OVER, i. eolation Hospitals • INFECTIOUS AND OTHER*B'TSEA'SP ^ Frill details of Isolation Hospitals in the. County will be ound in the Annual Report Tor 1938, .Infectious Li; r 0/1 i.< j > j. - 1 i t. , / . • ....« The •.oven principal Zymotic Diseases are Snail-pox,. Measles ^Scarlet. Fever, Dip.theria, Whooping'Ccuoh. Fever (including Typhus, Enteric and Continued Fevers) arid Diarrhoea (under 2 years). These diseases caused. 104 deaths and gave a Zymotic death-i of 516 for the County, as compared with a rate of .341 for 1940, , for 1939, .18 for 1930, ®24 for the year 1937, .26 for 1936, .34 i '1938 and ,46 for 1954, The following table shows the death and attack (notificatic rate for Zymotic Disease 1941. s in the County of Monmouth during the ye: >1 Death Rate Attack Re ; ;.No . of.. i. per 1000 of : No. of not- I per lQOO . Me ci 1/113 f l population. ifications. ■ populatic Small. Pox NIL ; NIL Me asles (including Ge rI:ian Me as le s )« 21 ,064 4938 15.010 Scarlet Fever. :■ -3 .009 A 483 1.484 Di-ptheria (including f. ! j i Membranous Croup)• 25 1 .076 602 1.830 Whooping Cough, 20 I ,061 1312, 3.987 Fever (including Typhus) Enteric and Continued I i 1 t i • • j ; i t Fevers)• 2 .006 26 ' ! ■ 0,079 Diarrhoea, i 33 * .100 not notifi- - -• * \ j. able • 104 ,316 73G1 1 22,340 SMALL PCX. No case of Small-pox was reported during the year 1941. VACCINATION. Under the Local Government Act, 1929, the functions relatir to Vaccination came under the control of the County Council as anc from the 1st April, 1930, as one of the duties relating to infant life protection and public.:health, and which wore formerly dischai by the Poor Law Authorities. This has the effect of making it ob] tory to discharge vaccination functions under Public Health and nc Poor Law. powers. Since the transfer'of these functions the work I been administered by the County Medical Officer, and all reports relating to Vaccination are.submitted to him. According to the ir tions of the Registrar-General, the following is a summary of the made by the Vaccination Officers relating to children whose birth: registered during the year 1940.,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28861619_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
