[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1944
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFEC'TIOTTS :niREA8ES WETIC’H AEE XOTIEIABLE Below is a table showing the number of cases of infectious diseases (other tlian tuberculosis) notified during 1944 showing ages: — Disease UTid 1 jr. 1-2 yi'S. 2-.3 yrs. 3-4 yrs. A-!) yrs. .5-10 yr.s. 10-15 yrs. 1 15-20 20-35 i .'I’S. 35-45 yr.s. '45-G5 : yr.-i. 1 05 i yrs. 122 T< tal Smalljiox 1 1 1 Scarlet fever 7 28 37 ! 37 71 273 104 24 i 15 3 ! — 606 Di})litlie]-ia and nienibra- 1 1 i 1 nons croup 2 4 6 8 6 36 15 11 21 2 1 — , 119 Erysipelas — — ' — — — I — 8 1 ^ 16 ! 9 1 36 Typhus fever — — — — ! — i — Enteric fever — — — — — — — 1 — 2 ' — — 3 Continued fever — — 1 — Relapsing fever Cerebro-spinal meningitis 2 — — ■ — 2 3 2 1 2 1 ; 1 — Encephalitis lethargica 1 (acute) — — — — 1 2 — — — — 1 — 3 Polio-encephalitis (acute) __ i Poliomyelitis (acute),.. ... — — 1 — - 1 — — 1 — 1 — — 3 Puerperal pyrexia — — — — — 2 35 6 1 — 1 — 43 Ophthalmia neonatorum Cholera 3 — — — — — — — — — ! — — Pneumonia 30 1.0 22 15 8 34 13 9 14 23 54 30 267 Malaria — — — — 2 — 1 — 3 Dysentery 1 1 2 1 n ^Measles 42 94 117 98 134 369 21 7 , 8 — 1 1 892 *Whooping cough 49 55 73 56 41 101 3 ~ 2 — 1 , 381 Totals 136 196 256 215 265 820 158 55 108 47 82 41 2379 Made notifiable under the Aleasles and Whooping Cough Regulatious, dated October 23rd, 1939. The number of patients treated in the Infectious Biseases Hospital during the year was as follows : — In hospital at beginning of year 56 Admitted to hospital during year 719—-775 Discharged from hospital during year 709 Xuniber of deaths in hospital during year 8—717 Eemaining in hospital at end of year 58 !](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927382_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
