[Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Blyth Borough.

  • Blyth (Northumberland, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Blyth Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION D, INFLUENZA« There are tv/o known types of the Influenza viiu.s> viz., Virus A and Virus B, and the former is more associated with epidemics and this Virus has. been isolated from some of the recent outbreaks. ' The Virus is spread by droplets and has a greater viability in dry than in humid atmospheres. Army experiments - where the floors of barracks, offices, etc., were oiled throughout the winter months proved that dissemination from foors can be prevented. The average weekly incidence of respiratory infections was 7 per 1,000 where floors wore oiled compared with 38 perl,000 in untreated control units. The poison of the Oirus acts on the nervous system, hence headaches, pains in the back, pains on the limbs, etc. and acute nervous depression, which lowers the resistance to secondary infections (pneumonia, Otitis, Sinu^is). Hence the necessity for bed at the earliest in a wellA/entilated room, not overheated. For the possibility of a spread of the severe type locally, emergency .measures to meet the situation were ready, but they frightened the bug. Nevertheless, wo had 14 cases of Influenzal Pneumonia. Those who think that the new drug Patulin (under trial) will put an end to the common cold had better hold their whist awhile. CANCER, Whilst enoPura'^ng results have, been received in the treatment of Cancer of the Prostrate glahd-by means of a synthetic substance Diethyl Stilboestrol - there is now : news from America of dramtic results by the administration of pills containing synthetic oestro-genus. The cure is limited to Cancer of the Prostrate Gland. An analysis of 1,000 cases of primary cancer of the lung at the Royal Cancer Hospital shows that the disease is . four times as common in males than in females, and that engineers, mechanics, painters ^ind decorators, have a high incidence, whil-C clerks have, a low one. Four. thousand men die every year from pro static cancer and hoc.c for these cases appears to.be well grounded from the trial of Diethyl Stilboestrol, which has been found to inhibit the gro^^th. Locally, out largest number of cases concerned the Gastro—intoatinal tract, , V ,
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