[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Driffield R.D.C.
- Driffield (Humberside, England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1938
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Driffield R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![There is no Meat Marketing' Scheme in force, no pn1)lic slaup'hter-houscs, no other foods were condemned and no proceedings instituted during the year. Aclolteration. No action has ])een taken. The County Council administer the Food and Drugs, etc.. Acts. Chemical and Bacteriological Examination of Food. No examinations were carried out during the year. No cases of food poisoning occurred. Nutrition. No special investigations have been made and no definite steps taken regarding this subject. SFXTION F. Prevalence of and Control over Infectious and other diseases. The following table shows the number of cases of each notifiable disease :— Total Sent to Hospital Died Scarlet Fever 11 11 0 Pneumonia 9 1 2 Diphtheria 7 6 1 Chicken Pox 21 0 0 Erysipelas 1 0 0 Puerperal Pyrexia 1 0 0 Total cases 50 .... 18 .... 3 No epidemics of any severity occnred during 1938, and in no case were Schools closed on account of infectious disease on my advice. The efficient co-o])eration of the Head Teachers in notifying cases to the Medical Officer of Flealth is of great help in kee])ing track of the infectious cases, especially the non-notifiable ones, such as whoo])ing cough and measles, in a rural district.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2916803x_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
