[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.

  • Cambridgeshire (England). County Council
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1915 in the Administrative County of Cambridge and its Districts. CASES NOTIFIED IN WHOLE COUNTY. TOTAL CASES NOTIFIED IN EACH DISTRICT. NO. OF CASES REMOVED TO HOSPITAL FROM DISTRICT. EACH NOTIFIABLE DISEASE. 1 At Ages—Years. HH -• O ^ z, bJD 4-> 2 £ ■gal 73 3 +•> 0.2 kfi 3 fl.a q -b +j 4-> O | <L> M -P 4-> O 0) -P '0 <i3 Z bo - 1 a .3 ■§ g| 73 h ps.a g-s 3 4-» p w ■H •*-> O <D T •X -b O >‘S 8.2 At all Ages. Under 1 1 to 5. 5 to 15. 15 to 25. 25 to 45. 45 to 65. 65 and upwards. tuo-rj J§ PQ O cn it '<5 O 5 Pi tUO-T? o.H« * 2 0 Pi d Is !Z 3 <L> MH to | Pi n u G ° rt So C/3 if a £p;s 2 3° y t rf in (J ^ S3 Ph Sq a — S Q t75 <D j_, £ 3 Pi > Q rt — S 2 m g Pi Smallpox — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -r■ — _ H — — — — — Cholera (c) Plague (p) Diphtheria ... j — — — — — — — — — ~ “ including Membranous croup 1 13° 20 84 16 IO 67 22 2 20 8 II 57 IO 2 5 Erysipelas 60 1 — I I 20 23 14 16 15 4 13 2 9 I — — — — — — — Scarlet fever ... 273 2 5° 166 32 19 3 I 86 85 34 19 17 28 4 59 47 IO — 13 18 3 Typhus fever ... — — — — — — — — — .. ^ i — — — — TV-' , — S — — — — — Enteric fever 6 — — 2 I 3 — — 2 2 — — • — 2 — — I — — — 1 — Relapsing fever — — — — — — — — — — 3 — — — — — — — — — — Continued fever — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Puerperal fever 6 — — — 2 4 — — 4 — I — — I — — — — — — — — Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis 2 — — I I — — — — — 2 — — — — — —■ I — — — Poliomyelitis ... I — — I — — — — — I — — — — — — — — — — Pulmonary Tuberculosis 280 1 4 42 75 105 47 6 137 43 15 31 16 36 2 — — — — — — — Other forms of ,, 39 — 6 17 6 9 I — 12 6 5 8 1 7 — — — — — — — — Ophthalmia Neonatorum 8 8 — — — — — — 6 — I — — I — — — — — — ‘ Totals 805 12 80 3n 135 170 74 21 33° | 173 62 94 44 95 7 Il6 58 12 I 13 24 3 The above admissions to Hospital include I of enteric fever and x of cerebro-spinal meningitis to Addenbrooke’s Hospital. They also include cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever admitted from the rural districts to t e Cambridge Borough Isolation Hospital. In addition to the figures in the Table, 47 diphtheria carriers belonging to the Borough, and 30 cases of scarlet fever, 19 of diphtheria, 6 of mumps, 175 of measles, and 10 ol German measles occurring among troops in the town were admitted to the Borough Isolation Hospital. Isolation Hospitals:—Cambridge Borough Infectious Diseases Hospital; Small-pox Hospital, situated in the Parish of Cherryhinton, and Isolation Hospital at Oakington, both in the Chesterton Rural District; Isolation Hospital of the Royston, Ashwell and Melbourn Joint Board, at Garden Walk, in the Parish of Royston; Newmarket Fever Hospital (a Joint Isolation Hospital [permanent] situated in the Newmarket Urban District); Isolation Hospital for Small-pox for the Parish of Bourn, in the Caxton and Arrington Rural District (not yet used). No sanatorium has yet been provided ; Insurance cases are sent to private institutions elsewhere.