[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Rutland County.

  • Rutland County Council
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Rutland County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The producer of the milk 11# deficient in fat was prosecuted and fine £2, Che other was fined £5. INFECTIOUS DISEASES The following cases of infectious diseases were reported during the year:- i Dic^ase Oakham Oakham Uppingham Ketton To —1-1— U.D. R.D. R.D. RcD. __ Cerebro Spinal Meningitis Anterior Poliomyelitis Typhus Fever Dysentery Sa .‘.monel la S<-a,rlet Fever Erysipelas PuGumonia Whooping Cough Measles Diphtheria Puerperal Pyrexia Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1 1< ;h) 1(H) 1< Ih) 1(H) l 2 •-2 1 4 3 ' 101 ;h8) 1 2< H2) SC 5i (H2) 1 5 3 (Hi) 24 (H4 pH) 2 1 24 8 2(H1) 6 11 2 12 1 c 3 1(H) 15 s3 9 31 6S 1 2(H1) 2£ ] Totals fHf in brackets means removed to Hospital, number of cases so removed. 80 27 39 1* the number after ..H is t Ihere was one death from Cerebro-Spinal fever in the Oakham Rural District. The case of Typhoid fever occurred in an elderly man ot who held no clinical sign of disoas© but had suffsred from bladdor i T 7 _ o or trouble. He was probably a carrier. Diphtheria Immunisation. As in previous years, immunisation and up to I have continued to carry out diphtheria December 31st 1947, the numbers immunised by me wore District Oakham R.D. Oakham U.D. Uppingham R.D. Ketton. R.D. Totals Under 5 years 5-15 years Total 532 432 964 207 190 397 389 673 1062 281 407 688 1,409 1,702 3,111 H 0 U S I N G I am glad to report that the work of housing ahead. I note with interest the erection of is being rapidly pushe 14 houses of,the Aire^