[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Chichester R.D.C.

  • Chichester (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Chichester R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VI. r-KSVAIiirCE IT'D GO]'IIP.OL 0? INEGCTIOUS im CVcr:?: i.)’:.' ft-ori fonr crs.pa or jl'ilorlc fc-'-or, and tlie inn aoT.io oi nho c.'ov.vj’:,:-; yoar, tloro oee'''.i /''O i.v; ■in in nl OL.o di. ooioo duiinr, to.e year. on of nil a i! IV' T,'.!.’ :.'' illl t;r _ ■ar j ^.'-onr-anno o' ci nh is ’ di Gcaoa ven-n ayiiC.Lad), ilir sa.ie ■ j.h Aa I'vda'no apparent nonL Cocnion iyj’;v;coj. i Jic I’dnr ii ns ina'lndod tboef; ieiiainSj tv’o b'ojiris', ared 3 ysSra a,id. •■1, and one; railLe nc'n-civilian. The oa.soa wc-ro riOd';''rat‘j v>'.;.r:v o;:,':. iiarsed ’ in hospital., vjh'ei-f; .they' ,'!iac'.c yiod T'no £i.or..e.L’ of 'o-.o'-of'thd children^ a'Children * si li'c.‘i,).inr,'i y'rf'ES ; vsns ioll'mI ti 'be a pcrsii-.iont carrier. She was removed tp Chiohasnei- IcoLvni,on . a. for. the „fai lurc...pf,.conservab ive methods.-of tr.oanment tor f.c'jj.sils were rernoved. The carrier condition cleared up soon after this ('/nc.ratioii . was carried ,.,put. . . ‘i - ■.Two' of the cases occurred in the month of March in thes.hes ;of A-Ldiipphoume and Tanom3ro, the third v^ias notified durinp the month of June fion the parish of Slindon^ wh'ilst the fourth‘was notified duririp; the month of Noverat'Or from the parish of Vifosthampnett. _ No deaths were,’rcp.f.st©'red during .the year as due-to-thi'S rrlssase. Supply 'Of Piphtheria ^fntitoxin. Po Guiirypes have been made with regard-to the su.pp'p/ of rtAi-toainn ■“ ■ ’’ Diphtheria Immunisation. ' . ■ ■■ fn, T-?,r:.uar.-y and ..Tebrua^y, a''publicity campai'gii was organised by riu'-us or posters, leaf.lens and articles in the loc^fL press. riiAen.or.was a-&.atfsfactcry response with regard to school chiId; on, but Dur; u,g. t'lo yoor, 1,252 children of school age-and -iS^ chiidr.on andoi* 5 ■yor.-cs.aut: .£1^,3 rocetved a-complete coletss of'- injections.' Ah.'t.boi.end .of. the yearit was estimated that 57fj of the' children aged o-J.o yc.arc- and 33^5 of children aged 1-5 years had ro'ceived a oompiote •coai. sc. of immunisation, Aa in previous years, the immunisation was ca'rried out by Medical Office.rs of the County Health Department, At the Itchcncr Park Auxiliaiy Hospital, 16 patients were immunised during their stay in hospital, . , „■ ' Scarlet Fever, ■ •’ I'urinp the year 78 cases of this disease wore notified, as cc.>Ti.pared with 60 ia 191-0, One non-civilian was Included in the cases rotified. Or the 73 cases, 53 cases vjere removed to hospital, 45 being admiri,od to the Chichester City Isolation Hospital and 8 to the Bogacr Reg.ls Tsolaticn Ho spit ol, <' h. Aic .majority of cases, the disease was mild in charactci’, TIxC average .length of stay in hosp-it'al was 2 6.6 days; • ’ ■ The disoc-sc was more prev.alent in the Nesterr', parishes, 20 C d* t) CG being