[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Ross-on-Wye U.D.C.

  • Ross-on-Wye (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Ross-on-Wye U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nptifia-bjLe^ Dis eas e durinjg the Year 1942:- ! Disease* I j Total Cases ' Notified# ] Gases adiltted 1 to Hospital# Deatlis* ' j Scarlet Pever ' 1 I Puerperal ?yre:!:ia , 2 ^ 2 ’ ! Pneumonia i 12 ; 6 1 i j Yvliooping CoLigh 1 - ; '■ Measles 16 ; M i j Ophthalnla Nconatorium ^ - - 1 1 - 2 i t I of Total Notified Cases a.ccordii'i/^-; to A/.;0; — ' _ CroT^St _ t Disease. idej, 1+! 2+; 3+12^-! 5+ ,1 o-i- ■ 15+! 20v i 35+ i 2^5+; p G+lCu Totals, i I Scarlet Pever f i ' •- ' I mm mm 1 ! - 1 mm } 1 f «• •• '* 1 > -H-™f ; 1 ; Puergjeral l^rexia mm ’■ „ j - mm 1 2 _ - mm i 2 , I Pneuimonia i mm 2 ^ - I 1 mm 1 — 1 3 4 1 ‘ 12 ! , Fnooping Cough - 1 '1 1 . - * 1 mm 1 4 ‘ •i Measles i i •m '1 M 13 ’ 8 3 i ; mam mm 1 16 f i Oxahthalmia Neonatorium ; 2 ‘ mm • 1 •- - mm : w i ^ - ! 2 ! ^ , . Totals ' 2 1 i2 1 2 ' A. 7*9 77 3 ■ 1 1 . 1J There \7ere no aciiiissions to the Stretton Sngvias Isolation Hospital and costs of hospital treatment v/ere therefore small. The Council considered the question of providing a steam aisinfector for use in the prevention of infectious disease aid for dealing v/ith veriimious clotliing aid bedding. It y/os decided, tl'iat any form of disinfector Y/hich could not holci. a mattress T/a.s not fully adequate for the requiroiiients of -the District and as the necessary licence for the purchase of a steel steal disinfector v/ith self contained boiler could not be obtained, further progress could not be ma.do. Scabies; The incidence of scabies apxioars to have been very lov/ in the District before the outbreaJe of v/au*, il)out one or tvvo cases each year confined to one jxirtioular cIolSS the ^’Casuals” v/as the ma,gnitudo of the problem# v/itli the outbreak of v/avT, as a. result of the migration of rhe populalion and overcrowding the incidence of the disease increased. In the year under roviev; 15 causes of scalios cajno to the notice of the Dcpajrt- ment, but as this disease is not compulsorily notifiable I am of the opinion that this figiure represents only iDcnt of the incidence* The ajcrangements for the trea/cment of the diseane should bo choa.p, efficient auid capa.blo of being a.pplied ivithout the necessity'' for admission of the patients to hospital. It scorns tha.t cccising arrangements both for ascertainment and for treatment of scalies a.t present available in the District handly conform to the above tliree x^rincixoles# Diphtheria. Iniiunisa.tion: Efiforts to secure the Imunisation a.gainst di]phtheria of all children under the a.ge of ib yeans •were continued during the yean vdth only a moderate success# Appreciating.; tl'ie nooossity of securing the langest xaossiblc response by panonts, the Coiuicil made onrangemonts ivith the Medical Pra.ctitioners v/hereby free imiunisa.ticn v/a.s r.va.ilablo from any doctor# In a.ddition to these fSioilitics, the DQpantmont provides free irmunisation facilities a.s follows:- ]Jndcr 3. Herns of Aj^: At tlio loss Infant V/olfrne Clinic hold on alternate Thmsday afternoons 2 - 4 a.t the Ross Congregational Church Rooiii# Under 16 Yeans of Age: At 3>-‘'^ton Street, Sa'turday mornings 10 a,m# « 12 a#m.