[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.
- Cumberland County Council
- Date:
- 1929
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![moderate cost, which may allow for an extension of the treatment to a greater number of cases. These Labora- tories also prepare a colloid calcinm with Vitamin D tor intj'amuscular injection. Some of the new cases in 1930 are being treated on these Glaxo products for comparisoa with the original products used in 1929. NOTES ON THE INHIYIDUAL CASES. Case No. 1.—L. H. This is the case of a girl, aged IS, the daughter of a farmer, in comfortable cvircumstances. She was for about two months treated (as a paying ptient) in a poor law hospital in Carlisle. The accommodation available was not very suitable for a case of pulmonary tuberculosis of this kind. In spite of this she made extraordinarily rapid progress. Being discontented with her surround- ings she went home at the end of January. She has done extremely well throughout, and is at the time of writiirg to all appearances perfectly well. She became a-febiTle early in February, 1929, and has remained a-febrile since. It will be noted that the weight chart shows a striking fall between April and August. I attribute this to the girl’s careless habits. She is an entirely irresponsible type, and insisted on going oiit to dances and generally living unAviselv. As the family were not themselves paying for the cod liver oil cream, and as I was dis- satisfied with the ]nart the girl Avas playing in the treat- ment of her OAvn disease, I stopped the cod IHer oil cream in jAine, substituting iodine in milk. The rapid fall in AA'eight tliereafter Avill be noted, as also the rapid gain folloAving the resumption of cod liA'er oil cream in August. It should perhaps be added that this girl was a contact of an older sister who two years ago developed acute miliary tuberculosis, and died three months after the onset of the disease. Case No. 2.—J. G. This is the case of a man, aged 45, an insurance agent in comfortable circumstances. As the charts show, he made \ininterrupted progress, and resumed duty in November, 1929. This ])atient remained a-febrile throughout. Case No. 3.—J. E. B. This is a case of a man, 30 years of age, suffering from both pulmonary and surgical tubercnlosis. The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29132903_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
