[Report 1954] / School Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council.
- Anglesey (Wales). County Council. no2003102100.
- Date:
- 1954
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1954] / School Medical Officer of Health, Anglesey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![TABLE 4. Laboratory Findings—Gargles and Sera. Case Age Area Date onset Gargle Serum* Vomiting M.] 19 Brynsiencyn 23/10 —ve ve No H.W.J. ... 67 »> 25/10 —ve NR No L.J 68 >> 22/10 NR NR No K.O 20 Dwyran 23/10 —ve NR No G.B 14 Llangefni 1/11 —ve -{-ve No P.W 8 >> 2/11 —ve NT No I.H 8 >> 2/11 —ve NT No G.J.t 10 >> 2/11 NT —ve Vomiting -{- -j- J.W.W. ... 33 Amlwch Pt. 23/11 NT -f ve Nausea D.J 50 Amlwch 16/11 NT -|-ve Nausea-f- + T.J 16 Amlwch 23/11 NT -|-ve No J.J 55 Amlwch 19/11 NT -five Nausea-f l.F.E 12 Amlwch 16/11 NT -|-ve Yes A.O 31 Amlwch 18/11 NT NR Yes M.T 12 Pensarn 21/11 NT NR No *Diagnostic rising titre to “B” virus. NR.—No result. NT.—Not tested, t One specimen of blood only taken at an interval of 4 weeks from onset of illness and gave a complement fixation for Influenza A 1/8 Influenza B 1/8. Vomiting as a symptom All children with four-day spells of absence among the school population of Llangefni, both primary and secondary, were investigated by the school nurses. Unfortunately an interval of four or five weeks had elapsed before this could be done. From the nurses’ reports it appears that vomiting was rather more common than one had been led to expect from the general practitioners’ findings. The incidence of vomiting among these children is shown in Table 5. 31 per cent of children vomited during their illness and the proportion of children vomiting tended to show the same age incidence as the fout-day absences themselves. TABLE 5. Incidence of vomiting among children with 4-day absence spells— Llangefni. Class At risk Absence spells No. with vomiting % of spells with vomiting Vomiting per 100 at risk Infants 97 51 12 23.5 12.4 Std. 1—2 98 53 14 26.4 14.5 Std. 3—4 69 46 14 30.4 20.3 Forms I—II 414 282 103 36.5 24.9 Forms III—IV 310 163 46 28.2 28.2 Forms V—VI 127 47 9 19.1 7.1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28825317_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
