[Report 1927] / Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1927
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    Enteric Fever. Sixteen case® of Enteric Fever were notified during the year, as compared with 35 for 1926. The number of deaths recorded being 3 in 1927 and 5 in 1926. In the Nantyglo and Blaina Urban, District 7 cases were notified, all of which were removed to the District Isolation Hospital. Of these cases, one proved fatal. Practically all the cases were in the Ffosmaen and Coedcae aa'eas. The local Medical Officer of Health reports that tlie only possible canse of the Typhoid cases in the Ffosmaen and Coedcae areas is the inadequate water supply. The inhabitants have to resort to streams and wells which are polluted by animals. The tanks are totally inadequate to meet the demand. The case of Typhoid Fever in the parish of Nash in the Magor Hural District, which proved fatal, was investigated, and it was found that the water supply of the house was a shallow well or pool in the garden. A sample was analysed and repoi-ted to be grossly contaminated with animal matter and to be unfit for human consumption. Diarrhoea and Enteritis Forty-eight deaths were registered from this disease, in children under two years of age, giving a death-rate of 7'36 per 1,000 births, which, when compared with the rate of 5'94 for the year 1926, is fairly satisfactory. In many of the districts handbills) dealing withi the method of prevention of Diarrhoea and Enteritis are circulated by the local authorities. Printed instructions to mothers in regard to these diseases are distributed by the County Health Visitors when cases come to their notice. Cerebro Spinal Fever and Acute Poliomyelitis. Two cases of Cerebro Spinal Fever and two cases of Acute Poliomyelitis were notified during the year, as compared with one case of CerebrO' Spinal Fever and one case of Acute Poliomyelitis for the year 1926. There were, however, no deaths recorded. Small Pox Tlie epidemic of Small Pox in, Monmoutlishire lias given rise from about the second week of Februairy, 1927, to December 31,st, 1927, to an incidence of 1,900 cases, which oo-incides with that officially recorded by the Registrar-General, although we are satisfied that this notification does not embrace the actual number of cases which had occurred during the period under review. Early in February the attention of the Depaifment was drawn by Dr. -I. Lloyd Davies to some curious cases at the Caerleon Training College, a.nd which cases were immediately isolated and kept under supervision. One case was