[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Westmorland County Council.

  • Westmorland (England). County Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Westmorland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Also, dispensary attendances have been 1,193 which, even allow¬ ing for those attending for refills, are still more numerous than in previous years. The following table shows that the number of patients on the dispensary register at the encU of the year is slightly down on the totals for several years past, but not sufficient to warrant any conclu¬ sion being drawn. Pulmo nary. i ^on-Pulmonary 1 Total Patients on register 1/1/47 Male Female Child Male ] ren 7 emale Male Female Chiic Male Iren remale 100 76 6 9 12 19 14 13 249 Patients “transferred in” 9 4 0 0 0 1 1 0 15 Lost sight of and cases returned dur- ing year 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 New Cases T.B.— 8 4 o 0 _ — — — 14 New Cases T.B. + 15 11 0 0 — — -—. — 26 Non-Pulmonary — —- — — 3 5 3 4 15 Recovered 6 7 1 3 4 3 7 4 35 Died 6 10 0 0 3 1 0 0 20 Removed 10 5 0 0 1 0 0 2 18 Lost sight of, etc. 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 On register 31/12/47 105 73 7 6 6 21 11 11 240 The pulmonary cases requiring treatment were admitted to West¬ morland Sanatorium (see table), though in a few cases transfer to another hospital (such as Chest Unit, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool) was made for special operative treatment. The non-pulmonary cases have been admitted to Calgarth (chil¬ dren) or Oswestry (adults). One “ mixed ” case is in Wrightmgton Hospital,