[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham City Council
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES. Statistical Tables are omitted. The following report is made by Dr. T. A. Don, who, in addition to acting as Medical Superintendent of the City Isolation Hospital, is also Assistant Medical Officer of Health and undertakes the infectious disease control work of the Health Depart¬ ment :— Smallpox.—There were no cases of smallpox notified during the year 1942. Several contacts connected with the Glasgow outbreak arrived in the city. These were kept under surveillance, but fortunately none developed the disease. The Smallpox Hospital was, however, used for the reception and treatment of some twenty Scarlet Fever patients who contracted Chickenpox in one of the wards at the Isolation Hospital. This outbreak was caused by a Scarlet Fever patient developing chickenpox (a highly infectious complaint) within a few days following admission. The primary case of chickenpox thus gave rise to nineteen secondary cases. The smallpox hospital was occupied from early in December 1942 until the middle of Januarv 1948. Scarlet Fever.—605 patients notified as suffering from Scarlet Fever were admitted to the City Isolation Hospital for treatment. The diagnosis was confirmed in 597 of these cases. The disease was again mild in type, only one death occurring from, septicaemia within 48 hours of the commencement of the illness. Surgical complica¬ tions were remarkably few, only one mastoidectomy (double) operation being necessary. Another girl required surgical treatment for a cervical abscess. Three children required to have an operation for the removal of tonsils and adenoids in order to hasten their convalescence.
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