[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Dorking U.D.C.

  • Dorking (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Dorking U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6.—PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE. NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Table IV shows the total of the various infectious diseases notified during 1946, classified according to age and sex, together with the number of cases removed to hospital and the total deaths, if any, from each disease. Smallpox.—No case of smallpox was notified during the year. No primary vaccination or re-vaccination was performed by the Medical Officer of Health under the Public Health (Smallpox Prevention) Regula- tions, 1917. Scarlet Fever.—Thirteen notifications were received during the year, compared with 12 in 1945. The case-rate was 0.66 per 1,000 civilian population, compared with 1.38 for England and Wales. All but one of the patients were admitted to hospital for treatment. Diphtheria.—No case of diphtheria was notified. The case-rate for England and Wales was 0.28. The downward tendency of diphtheria incidence and mortality rates will be noticed on reference to Table V, in which are tabulated the yearly figures since 1934. In my opinion this satisfactory feature is the result of several factors, of which I consider the more important to be the improved general care of children’s health, both in the home and at school ; the speedy and effective steps taken in co-operation by medical practitioners, the school medical authority and the local public health department in detecting and isolating suspected sources of infection ; and, particularly in the last few years, in the controlled production of immuni- sation by appropriate treatment. TABLE IV. Disease Cases Notified. Total all ages both sexes Cases admitted to Isolation Hospital Deaths | l-i >> M na a D CO O lO O CO o o lO O O tH lO 04 O 25 and over & < M F M F M F M F M F M F M F M F r Fever ... 1 2 4 1 5 4 9 13 12 >nia 1 1 1 4 1 6 2 8 — 7 c ng Cough 1 2 2 2 1 — 1 1 6 5 1 10 1 a — 1 2 1 2 4 1 3 1 6 10 15 2 •a] Pyrexia — — — — — — — — — 4 — 2 6 6 Y Imia Neonatorum 1 1 1 1 2 It relitis ... — — — — — — 1 1 — — — 1 1 2 — —