Report of the City Health Department / City of Winnipeg.

  • Winnipeg (Man.). Health Department
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Report of the City Health Department / City of Winnipeg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Distribution of Cases appearing on our records as “in Hospital and Sanatorium”, at end of the year 1935. M. F. Total King Edward Memorial Hospital _ 22 21 43 St. Boniface Sanatorium _ _ 34 32 66 Ninette Sanatorium — _ _ 44 47 91 Central Clinic _ _ 5 3 8 St. Rochs Hospital _ _ 2 — 2 Total _ _ 107 103 210 Nurses’ reports show a total of one hundred and forty-one new cases added to their districts during the year. Summary showing work done by the three visiting nurses appears in the report of the Division of Communicable Diseases. Typhoid Fever—Fourteen cases and four deaths were recorded for the year as against thirteen cases and two deaths for the preceding year. Corrected cases and deaths for the year 1935 show nine cases and one death against eight cases and three deaths for 1934. A more detailed analysis gives the following information,—Five were definitely non-resident cases admitted to city hospitals for treat¬ ment, of this number three died. Of the remaining nine cases, three contracted the disease while travelling outside the city. Four cases, three of which were members of one family, are listed as probably infected whilst visiting points adja¬ cent to the city, leaving two citizens whose infection occurred within the city. Three cases treated in hospital as suspect typhoid recovered and were discharged without a definite diagnosis. i Whooping Cough—The total number of cases of Whooping Cough recorded for the year was seven hundred and forty-four, deaths three, as compared with one hundred and forty-four cases and two deaths for the preceding year. The three deaths recorded appear in the age group of one year and in this group fifty-nine cases are recorded whilst no deaths are regis¬ tered in the group under one year where forty-nine cases are registered. The months of March, April and May provided the high figures for the year, there being three hundred and seventy-eight cases reported in these three months. In many cases the characteristic symptoms were absent and diag¬ nosis was often difficult on this account. This has been noted before when the type is mild and atypical. \ Medical Relief, Etc.—The total number of calls made by District Physicians was three hundred and forty-three as compared with three hundred and eighty-nine for the preceding year. In this regard we be¬ lieve that these figures reflect freedom from illness amongst those not registered on unemployment relief, to a very low number. Associated with this work calls referred to the Margaret Scott Mission for atten¬ tion also show a drop, the total for the last three years being ninety- eight, seventy and sixty-two respectively.
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