[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Banff County Council.

  • Banffshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Banff County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    u 18. Hospitals for Sick Children. Nine chiklrcii were treated either in tlie Chalmers Hospital, the Seafield Cottage Hospital, or the Rose- Innes Hospital, Abcrchirder. 19. Convalescent Homes. Nil. 20. Boarding-out. Nil. 21. Home Helps. Nil. 22. Educational. Short “talks’’ on health matters were given to the mothers attending the Child Welfare Clinics at Buckie, Banff, IMacduff, Portsoy, Aberchirder, and Keith. 2. School Children—medical inspection, supervision and treatment. See School Medical Officer’s Report. 3. Infectious diseases, notifiable and non»notifiable—in- cidence—any special action to deal with influenza, pneumonia, measles, whooping cough, encephalitis lethargica, infective jaundice, psittacosis. Refer to any arrangements for supply of diphtheria antitoxin. Scarlet Fever. During 1933 practically the whole of Scotland was affected by an epidemic of scarlet fever. The weekly returns of infectious diseases showed a prevalence of scarlet fever more than three times the normal. In this County therc were notified a total of 287 cases compared with 159 in 1932 and 90 in 1931. One-lialf of the total cases notified occurred in the Burgh of Buckie, and so far as this County is con- cerned this was the only area where there was an epidemic prevalence. While there was a greater incidence than normal in some of the other Burghs and parishes there was no epidemic prevalence. The epidemic in Buckie commenced about the middle of the year and was confined to no particu- lar part of the town or to any particular school, and during the summer school vacation the disease was as prevalent as when the children were going to school. Generally the dis- ease was a mild tj'^pe but a feature of the epidemic was the frequent development of nose and ear complications even in mild illnesses. In many cases the source of infection could be traced but in the great majoritj^ of cases no explanation could be found. In the landward area the parishes mainly affected were Rathven, Forglen, Marnoch, Keith and Glen- livet. Hospital accommodation for all cases requiring re-
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