[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton UDC 1909].

  • Edmonton (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton UDC 1909]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INFLUENZA. Seventeen deaths were registered from this cause, compared with 9,14 and 9 for 1908-7-6. Six persons were over 65 years of age, and there were two deaths amongst infants of the second agei-period attributed to this cause. PHTHISIS & OTHER TUBERCULOUS DISEASES. The deaths from phthisis numbered 43, as compared with 54, 53 and 65, during 1908-7-6. The death - rare from the disease is therefore 0.70 per thousand. Of these deaths, nine occurred among residents of the district in Edmonton Workhouse. The total deaths from phthisis in the Strand and Edmonton Workhouses in the district numbered 36, or 18 less than, last year. The accommodation for phthisical cases' in the Edmonton Workhouse Infirmary isi about 24 beds for males and eight for females,; at the Strand Institution chronic oases are treated in the general wards, and any acute case is returned to the London depot,. The other tuberculous diseases together accounted for 26 deaths, giving a death-rate of 0.42 per thousand. In this way tuberculosis contributed a total death-rate of 1.13 per thousand, or over 10 per cent of all the deaths. No progress has been made in the establishment of a County Sanitorium. “ Out of the 4,038 children inspected during the year I found seven cases of tubercle of the lungs only, nine cases of tubercular lymphatic glands,, six oases showing signs of past joint trouble, and two, cases of past disease of the bones,. I also found two cases of lupus, both of which are under treatment.”— [S.M.O.] Tuberculous Meat and Milk. See Section V :—“ Places over which the Council exercise supervision.” COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF PHTHISIS. In December, 1908, the Local Government Board issued regulation® pro¬ viding for the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of cases of pul¬ monary tuberculosis occurring amongst the inmate® of Poor Law institutions, or amongst persons under the care of the District Medical Officer, and for the taking of certain measures in such cases to take effect on January 1st, 1909. The notideotion must be sent off by the pauper Medical Officer within 48 boms of his recognition of the symptoms. The superintending officers of poor law institutions must also send, within 48 hours of his departure, a noti-
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