[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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    Tiioval was fomul in tliese hospitals, namely :—The Campbell Hospital, i6S; Isolation Hospital, Dufftown, 17; l-iose Innes Hospital, Aberchircler, 15; and the Turner Alemorial Hos- pital, Keith, 20. There were 4 deaths from scarlet fever. Diphtheria. There were notified 73 cases of diphtheria, as compared with 30 in the preceding year. There were 16 cases in the Burgh of Cullen, where the source of infection was traced to a child with nasal diphtheria contracted during a visit to Aberdeen. In the Burgh of Dufftown there were 16 cases notified, and in this instance, while no unrecognised case was discovered at the time of the notification of the first case, subsequent developments showed that there had been cases of the disease unrecognised and not dealt with as diph- theria. The outbreak was confined mainly to school child- ren among whom cases of nasal diphtheria were found in at- tendance at school. Several cases were discovered in the course of investigating the outbreak, and in two cases the source of infection was found in persons suffering from dis- charging ears. There were ii cases in Portknockie, and again the spread of the disease was due to a case of nasal diphtheria. There was a small outbreak in Sandend due to the same source, unrecognised nasal diphtheria. In Aberlour there were 4 cases all of which occurred in the Orphanage. In all of these outbreaks numerous throat and nose brushings were taken for bacteriological examination to discover un- recognised cases of the disease. There were 5 deaths from diphtheria, in all of which there was delay in getting medical attention and suitable treatment. Enteric Fever. Five cases of enteric fever were notified, as compared with 10 in the preceding year. All of these cases were of the paratyphoid variety. One occurred in the Village of Whitehills in a woman who had contracted the disease while on a visit in Perthshire. One occurred in Aberlour Burgh of which the source was not ascertained. Three cases occurre<l in the Banff District, 2 of which were traced to infection from an unrecognised ])aratyphoid carrier, and the third was a case of paratyphoid meningitis in an infant which was diag- nosed post mortem. There was one death from enteric fever. Erysipelas. Notifications, i6. Deaths, o. One case was treated in the Campbell Hospital, Portsoy.
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