[Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunbarton County Council.

  • Dumbartonshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1934
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Credit: [Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunbarton County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    noted that 14 cases notified during the year died, two in Woodilee Asylum. One girl of twenty years died in six weeks from acute phthisis, and the others were beyond treatment on notification. It is only too obvious that treatment can do nothing for such advanced cases. Education, both lay and medical, is still inadequate. N on-Pulmonary Tuberculosis.—During the year under review 38 cases (16 males and 22 females) came to the notice of the Medical Officer. These cases may be conveniently classified according to age and situation of the disease as follows :— Situation of the Disease. Age Periods Under 5 5—10 10—16 15—25 25-35 35—45 45—65 65 & Over. Total Glands, 2 3 4 2 1 l 13 Bones and Joints, - 4 l 1 1 2 ] 2 1 13 Abdomen, - 1 3 1 1 i — — — i Spine, — — 1 — i — — — 2 1 Meninges, - — — 1 — — — — — I Skin, - — Other, — — — 2 — — — — 2 Total, 7 7 8 6 5 1 3 1 38 Of this number— 9 were treated in sanatoria, 2 received domiciliary treatment, and 3 died before the end of the year. There is a definite and sustained drop in the notifications of non-pulmonary tuberculosis. The decrease is most marked in the category of “ glands.” The percentage of enlarged glands due to tuberculosis is comparatively small. As this fact becomes more generally accepted by the family doctors the source of sepsis in nasopharynx and mouth is immediately dealt with, and only those eases notified where no obvious j source of sepsis exists. Some credit must also be given to the