[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Newmarket U.D.C.
- Newmarket (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1920
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Newmarket U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![c.] so aninia.-lg and Kanure heaps were too near thc^ liouse. has since been rfiaedioa. This Chicken Pox» is not notifiable in tills District, a rather extensive epidemic occurred of a mild type. Oj)hthalmic heonatoruiin One case only was notified, the patient recovered under treatment without any dama^ye to either eve. No case of Malaria or Dysentry has been notified curing the year. 23. 24. No primary or secondary Vaccinations were perfonaed by me under the Small Fox Prevention Regulations, 1917. Tuberculosis. 26 notification were received of this disease, one of them was not received until after the death of the patient having probably been lost in the post. In 24 of the cases the lungs were affected, in one the Pleura and in one the arm and leg. This is an increase of ten over last year. Each case is re-notified to the County Medical Officer of Health and is visited by a Health Visitor appointed by the County Council. If the case is likely to benefit by Sanitarium treat¬ ment and a bed is available this treatr-ient is advised and if accepted the patient is removed to the Sanitorium at Bury St. Edmunds and the promises are disinfected, this is also done after the death of a patient at home. Certain patients received w'lat is called Domiciliary Treatment, this apparently consisos of an occasional visit by the Tuberculosis Officer and Health Visitor and in ray opinion is not of much value either in arresting the disease or preventing its spreading; indeed I do not anticipate much improvement in the incidence of the disease until we have a large enough number of beds to seggrege-te the cases which are in their most infectious state, namely the last sta^-es. a,nd Child ^Yelfare. This is in the hands of the County Council. The County Medical Officer of Health undertakes the Clinic, and is also School Medical Officer. B.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29906830_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
