[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council.
- Radnorshire (Wales). County Council.
- Date:
- 1950
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The following table shows the total number of cases on the County Register at the end of the year : Age Periods 0— Respiratory M F Non- Respiratory M F Total All forms 1— 5— 1 1 1 1 4 15— 23 18 9 7 57 45— 9 5 3 2 19 65 + 3 2 2 7 Total 36 26 15 10 87 Venereal Disease. There is no clinic or centre for the treatment of Venerea] Disease in the County. Such cases are dealt with by arrangement with the Herefordshire County Council and the Salop County Council at their clinics at Hereford and Shrewsbury. The very low incidence of Venereal Disease in the County is reflected in the attendances of Radnorshire patients at the Treatment Centres given below : Clinic. Syphilisi Gonorrhoea. Other Conditions Hereford — — 2 Shrewsbury — 1 — Total — 12 Cancer. Thirty-two patients died of cancer during the year, giving a mortality rate (per 1,000 of the population) of 1*56. Poliomyelitis. During the year, Radnorshire like the rest of the country, was affected by the epidemic of Poliomyelitis. Seven cases of the disease were notified during the months of September and October of which three were males and four were females. The ages were 28, 27, 25, 23, 5 and 3 years respectively. Of these cases 1 occurred in the Llandrindod Wells Urban Dist- rict, 2 in the Knighton Urban and 4 in the Knighton Rural District. The number of cases notified gives an incidence for this County of 34*3 per 100,000 of the population as compared with 14'7 per 100,000 for the whole of Wales.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28875047_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
