[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon RDC 1919].

  • Hendon (London, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1920
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    i K ,39 Diphtheria, ; ryaipe] . , . >c x 1 t i v •, 17 Pneiraonia, 1 Enteric Fever, 1 Puerpe al Fover, 1 I olio- iyolitis, 1 i olio licephnlilia, Id 1 li >oiwry Tuberculosis, -r other forrm or Tuberculosis . Gf these line - • .fllnri. an 1 Pneumonia became compulsorily notifiable und r i m of 7th January 1919, lit i r of these . ea hi contracted the L te i 3 ; ono a nurse having returned from JSast Africa and th otPr * soldi l from %ypt . There are no ■ osquitoei i i - bourhood. diphtheria Bear let Fever. , es o f ipht iris , 10 c? ■ ; 11 fro ittls i ore /5 fro arr >nld, an 1. fro Pinner. At Bd pr>re an outbreak of this iisease occurred at th • Schools , to which I have alluded later on 1 li i or wpp responsible for the c^ses in Kdgwsre and Little 5 . The cases fro?-; Pinner occurred in these parts of the parish adjoining Harrow end L'oalistone where the disease was very p-revs - uont iudn ■ the year. 0 -os o Soarlet Fover 16 c me froa Pinner, 3 fro ire. ; fro. Harrow -oal'i , and 1 e o iidgwnre mid little Stnnmore. . ost of the on cob occurring in Greet dt^nnore- i ere u to n outbreak in r preparatory School . This -v ri ,o deal of troubl nd anxiety as it soiled i?.'possible to trace tho sourse of infection . 11 it l o’ the school proi inea at tho and of erch tom spur die cases cropped up continually . he end of the year I 1© to detect nix possible carriers end hnve ev »ry hope that i write now the lnfectio u is t n end. 'uteri c Fever There was only one e of this disease, th e r iii oh ou.1 not b-: trace 1 olio, i/elitis of irf nt paralysis was notified . This chil \tbs on of r large family and I find that four veers ^ :o m oi lnr child had suffers . fro the same complaint • The of th Infection «jul not be traced. Polioencephalitis c? io ■ . of this is ease was notified , • - le res of infection was not traced . chil 1 1 ,1 i to say recovered except for - alight nosB i hi 1 :ft lo ; ’ r, cm, Pneumonia There were 17 oases of Pneumonia notified If of 1 hi oh were Influenzal. details ere jiven of the Influenzi wider “Bynotic Diseases'. Tuberculosis . Them were 13 cases Pulmonary Tuberculosis notified urin the p it year . Last ; tar th nunber was 17 . • these ID cases , 5 were treated in It 1 oi >anatorii , th others being treated by the Tuberculosis I adical Officer in the various dispensaries or nt home by their on nodi 1 p. There were also 3 c res notified m sufforiir-g from other xzQ flWM of ... uberoulosis , o . • i :» enl to Hospital. Disinfection ;tc Scarlet Fever L Diphtheria ill c os of infectious disease ^ro viaito'! on notification dy your Sanitary inspector and disinfect twits - t • All of Scarlet Fever bxi ftphtheiia , including carriers of o . ol b i v tisfactoril ; home are r .moved to yo r Isolation hospital after yliich the roam occupied by th patient are disinfected an ' infect • 1 i tret I in our st ran i i tor .All carriers or Diphtheria are notified as suffering fro.- the (53
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