[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate].

  • Southgate (London, England). Municipal Borough.
Date:
[1938?]
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    No case of overcrowding was met with in any of the houses inspected in connection with cases of infectious disease. It is interesting to note that, of the 217 cases of notifiable infectious disease reported during the year, only 21 occurred in Council property, as follows : Scarlet fever 6 Diphtheria 2 Erysipelas 2 Dysentery 1 Pneumonia 6 Tuberculosis 4 No cases were reported from the Church Army Housing Estate at Barrow Close. One hundred and five cases were removed to the Isolation Hospital at Tbttenhall Road. Of these, 46 were admitted suffering from scarlet fever, 1 from scarlet fever and chicken pox, 8 from diphtheria, 17 from erysipelas, 1 from typhoid fever, 1 from puerperal pyrexia, 5 from pneumonia, 3 from influenza, 2 from whooping cough and pneumonia, 1 from whooping cough and otorrhoea, 1 from whooping cough and ?mastoid, 1 from measles and pneumonia, 1 from German measles and hematuria, ] from mumps, and 5 from tonsillitis. Nine observation oases and 2 babies with mothers were also admitted. (As will be seen from the portion of the Report dealing with the work of the Isolation Hospital, the original diagnosis had to be amended on several occasions). Small-pox.—No cases of small-pox occurred in the district during 1937. The number of contacts reported from other districts has fallen to a remarkable degree within the past few years, it being now a rare occurrence to receive notification of the existence within the Borough of such contacts. Vaccination.—No primary vaccinations or re-vaccinationg under the Public Health (Smallpox Prevention) Regulations, 1917, were required during 1937. Scarlet Fever.—Sixty-one cases of scarlet fever were notified during the year, as against 74 in 1936. 58