[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough.
- Pontefract (England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1942
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PART THREE PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES 486 cases of disease were notified during 1942, a decrease of 481 on tLe previous year's figure. The decrease is due- to the abatement of the measles epidemic of 1941: 66 cases were notified in 1942 as compared with 573 i*1 the previous year, A reduction of 62 was recorded in the cases of whooping cough notified! 28 cases of scarlet fever were notified 14 . more than in 1941, whilst the number of cases of diphtheria' increased from 22 to 55c Of the 3 cases of ophthalmia neonatorum only one was :normally resident in the Boroughj viuhDn was:-(unimpaired# The immunisation campaign was continued throughout the year, during which period 1,230 children resident in the Borough completed the full course of immunisation, 358 of whom were under 5 years of age. It is estimated that at the end of the year 19• yfo of the children under school ago were immunised, whilst the percentage for those between 5 and 15 was 60.3 Three children died from diphtheria; none of them had been immunised. The following table gives particulars of the incidence of notifiable vases (other than Tuberculosis) among the civilian population. Table III. Diseases Total 1 Ca-oes admitted Total deaths notified cases to hospital Scarlet fever 28 ! 28 0 LIphtheria 55 : 55 3 E-.teric fever 2 i 2 . 2 Preumcnia ! 50 i 0 0 p- erperal pyrexia 5 ! 5 0 C. .ebro-spinal fever 1 3 3 c Ovi.ithalmicv neonatorum 3 0 0 Erysipelas 16 0 0 Chickenpox 100 0 0 ci sd J. G S 66 i O' 0 Whooping cough 109 0 ? 1 TUBERCULOSIS, In the following table new cases and.mortality are \ classified# Table IV. ] ■ New cases i Deaths Age periods | Non- Respiratory ! respiratory i - ’Aide r 5 years 5 and under 15 x'j and under 25 1 r. 25 and under 35 35 and under 45 45 and under 55 55 and under 65 65 and over Totals M, 1 1 cr y 3 d 1 4 18 F. 3 7 2 4 J M. 1 3 F. Respiratory M. 2 3 2 1 2 1 1 4 19 5 7 F. Non- re spi rat ory M. 1 2 1 1 F, , 5 _i_](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30027020_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
