[Report 1948] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter.

  • Exeter (England). City Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / School Medical Officer of Health, Exeter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cerebrospinal Meningitis. All 4 cases were incorrectly diagnosed, 1 being a case of cerebral-haemorrhage in the course of chronic nephritis, 1 tuberculous meningitis, 1 pneumococcal meningitis and 1 subacute rheumatism. Whooping Cough. The fatality was due to acute generalised miliary tuberculosis. The case which recovered was complicated ^ by congenital heart disease. Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis. The diagnosis was confirmed i in 10 cases. With one exception, all these cases were reported ] upon in the appendix to the Annual Report for 1947 as they formed ■ a continuous series with the cases arising in that year. The case I not previously recorded was admitted on 22nd March, 1948, from : x\xminster and aged 17. In 3 cases the diagnosis was not confirmed. The correct diagnoses were as follows :— 1 lobar pneumonia, 1 injury to . right shoulder and 1 subacute rheumatism. V Table B—referring to period bth July, 1948, to SlsiiJ December, 1948. Discharged. Remain- ing 31.12.48 Disease. Remain- ing 5.7.48 Ad- mitted Diag- nosis con- firmed. Diag- nosis not con- firmed. Deaths. Scarlet Fever 9 65 55 1 18 Diphtheria 1 15 1 12 — 3 Enteric Fever — 5 4 1 — — Dysentery — 1 1 — — —• Mumps — 1 1 — ; Erysipelas 1 — 1 — — — ! Measles 1 12 9 3 — 1 ' Pemphigus Cerebro-spinal — 2 2 — — — Meningitis — 5 2 3 — ■ Whooping Cough .... — 2 1 1 — — Poliomyelitis — 4 4 — — — Chickenpox 4 4 Totals 12 117 85 22 — 22 NOTES. Scarlet Fever. 3 cases were complicated by bronchitis, 1 by broncho-pneumonia, 1 by otitis media and 1 by paronychia. The diagnosis was not confirmed in 1 case, the correct diagnosis being I measles with broncho-pneumonia.