[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, High Wycombe Borough.

  • High Wycombe (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, High Wycombe Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION Bli MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE SERVICES The following Clinics are administered by the Bucks County Council: Sunlight Clinic.—Children under school age. Dental Clinic.—Nursing and Expectant Mothers and Children under school age. Ophthalmic Clinic.—Children under school age. Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic.—Children under school age. Infantile Mortality The following table gives the infantile mortality rate per 1,000 live births for High Wycombe and England and Wales for the last ten years: — 1 1941 1942| 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 lEngland & Wales 59 49 49 46 46 43 41 34 32 29.8 fHigh Wycombe 31.5 35.6] 24.6 34.7 31.9 14.9 28.05 20.62 25.28 24.27 Infantile Mortality Fifteen infants under the age of twelve months died during 1950, giving an infantile mortality rate of 24.27 per 1,000 live births. SECTION IV PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE (a) Notifiable Diseases The table on the following page gives the number of cases during the year. (b) Immunisation against Diphtheria The County Council are responsible for this service. Immunisa- tion is carried out at all the Welfare Clinics and in the Schools. (c) Scabies All cases are now treated by private doctors. It is thought that numbers of cases are very few. (d) Isolation Hospital All cases of infectious disease needing hospital treatment are sent to Aylesbury, Reading or Maidenhead.