[Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.
- Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.
- Date:
- 1922
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PNEUMONIA. During 1922 the total number of notifications received was :— Primary pneumonia .2268 ] Influenzal pneumonia. 487 j This is a considerable increase in the primary pneumonia and influenzal pneumonia notifications, the total for the preceding year being 1,796. As in previous years, many of these notifications were duplicated, cases being again notified when admitted to hospital. After carefully going over the investigation sheets, it was found that these 2,755 notifications referred to 2,566 cases, 2,053 being cases of primary pneumonia and 513 case of influenzal pneumonia. In addition to the above, however, 543 deaths from pneumonia, 486 primary and 57 influenzal, all being unnotified cases, were brought to our notice through the death returns, and of these 443 primary and 53 influenzal cases were investigated. As will be seen on Table No. 1, the total number of fully investi¬ gated cases was 2,979, 2,430 being primary pneumonia and 549 influenzal pneumonia. The delay between the diagnosis of pneumonia and the receipt of the notification is still considerable in all forms of the disease. Only 1,375 cases were notified within the first three days after diagnosis. In 175 cases the patient had died prior to the receipt of notification. Assistance in the form of milk was allowed in 158 cases where the actual income was below the standard scale. The Health Visitors paid 7,396 visits in connection with cases suffering from all forms of pneumonia, compared with 4,685 visits in the previous year.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29785431_0167.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
