[Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.
- Staffordshire (England). County Council
- Date:
- 1921
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. ^5 SCAELET FEVEE. 5 years. 1B89-1893. 5 years. 1894-1898. 5 years. 1899-1903. 5 years. 1904-1908. 5 years. 1909-1913. 5 years. 1914-1918. 1919 1920 1921 cJ No. of Deaths 76 95 87 56 43 31 5 11 15 .Rate per 1000 0’19 0-23 0-19 0-11 00 0 6 0-06 0-01 0 0 to 0-03 |No. of Deaths 39 37 36 16 11 8 1 12 6 Rate per 1000 0-17 0-16 0-15 o-os 0-05 0*03 C'OO^ C‘05 0-03 Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.— In the Administrative County, ,55 deaths occurred from diphtheria and membranous croup, as compared with 92 in 1920, equal to a rate per 1,000 of the population of 0*07, as against 0*13. Of these deaths, 32 occurred in the urban districts, or o'oG per 1,000, and 23 in the rural districts, producing a rate of o'lo per 1,000. In the following table mean figures are given for six quinquennial periods, and figures for the past three years :— niPHTIIEEIA. 6 years. 1889-1893. • OC . K5 cc cn ' tr. 0 s- ao - eS r-l 1 ci r-l >4 ■ iC CO LO CO *—1 r—( . oi tr. 0 eS Sr.; •^O lO C-J . .00 tx. ^ ^ CO Cf a f-M ^ -_L i LO 0 ! LO r-. j r-l 1919 1920 1921 i {No. of Deaths ^ i 16 79 : 91 84 i 56 85 52 60 32 to [Rate per 1000 0-04 0-19 0-20 i 0'16 OTli 0*18 i 0-11 0-12 006 ( No. of Deaths .20 i 52 ' 72 28 i 26 1 34 1 25 32 23 J-i ^ [Rate per 1000 ! 0-09 0-23 0-31 i 0-14 0.12 0-17 1 0-12 015 OTO It is interesting to record the fact of certain special measures taken in a part of Lichfield Rural District where diphtheria had been endemic for many years but which broke out in epidemic form from time to time for no apparent reason. Arrangements were made by the School ]\Iedical Officer to systematically swab the children in the schools whereby many “ carriers ” were brought to light, who, in every instance, were suffering from enlarged tonsils and adenoids. The school medical staff then operated on these children and subsequent examinations showed that they were no longer](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30131935_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
