[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The number of cases notified by the medical practition- ers during the year 1913 was 58 (9 of which were imported), 89 pulmonary, viz.: 23 males and 10 females; 19 non-pul- monary (1 of wluch was imported); 8 males, 11 the 23 pulmoni^v males, 16 were insured, of which the 7 uninsurec^ied. Of the 16 pulmonary females, 4 were insured and 12 not. Of the insured, one died; of the unin- sured, 6 died. Of the 8 non-pulmonary males, 1 was im- ported and 1 was insured. Of the 11 non-pulmonary fe- males, 2 were insured and 4 of the 8 non-pulmonary males died. There were 3 deaths of residents dying out of the City ; 2 of these were soldiers stationed at the J3arracks for a short time and then sent to Aldershot, where they died. J3oth were suffering with the disease when they came to Canterbury. 3 non-residents died in public institutions in the City. Dr. Greenwood, the iNIedical Officer for the County, has drawn up a scheme for the County, including Canterbury, which the Town Council has adopted subject to the financial basis of the scheme being satisfactory. Under this selieme, a Tuberculosis Dispensary will be established in Canterbury, with a Tuberculosis ^ledical Officer; a Sanatorium for 100 beds to be built in the County. The Tuberculosis Dispen- sary will be a centre for diagnosis, a centre for treatment and “ after-care,” an information bureau, and an educa- tional centre. It will be tlie pivot of the whole scheme. The necessary complement of a dispensary system is the resi- dential institution, i.e., that is, the sanatorium and the hos- pital. This forms the second unit of the scheme. The sanatorium is an institution for the treatment and cure of early cases. Advanced and acute cases are treated in hos- pitals, and beds would be set apart in the hos])itals for tlieir treatment, if arrangement could be made with the voluntary hospitals for the supply of beds at 30s. a week for each bed. This would have to be approved by the Local Government Board. Health visitors, a nurse, and charitable work, such as is provided by the Alford Relief Society, will cover the ground which is outside the sphere of a public authority, and it is the sympathetic co-operation of the Alford Relief Society with the State scheme which is so necessary for its completion and ultimate success. Under the National In- surance Act, sanatorium and domiciliary treatment have been carried out with good results. I liave visited all houses when cases have been notified, have taken the necessary steps to jirevent the spread of infection, and in all cases of death the rooms have been disinfected. Pulmonary Tuberculosis caused 30 deaths, including 3