[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Godalming Borough.

  • Godalming (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Godalming Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lie died the day after admission; a post mortem examina- tion revealed the cause of death as septic pneumonia following- upon septic tonsillitis. He had apparently come into the district to recuperate from the tonsillitis. Typhoid.—There were six admissions from the Borough of (xuildford, of whom five were found to be suffering from, Paratyphoid B. Exhaustive encjuiries failed to lead to the source of infection. Samples of water, milk and ice-cream, all of which were taken from the houses, or from the farms supi)lying the houses in question, proved negative to the typhoid infection, and drainage was in order. The cases were all mild and re- covered in a very short time. One child ])roved to be a carrier, although clinically uninfected. Deatlts.—The two deaths during the year were due. one to severe' diphtheria which attacked nearly all the child members of a Guildford family and proved fatal to one. She was admitted in a very advanced stage of the disease and died on; the fourth day after admission. The other was that from septic ]meumonia above reported on. Diagnosis.—As above-mentioned, the number of cases sent in and found not to be suffering from the disease for which they were admitted was very much lai-ger than usual. Numbers were! as follows. From Guildforef M.B.—2 cases sent as Scarlet Fever. 10 as Diphtheria. From Guildford R.D.—0 as Diphtheria. From Hambledon R.D.—1 as Diphtheria. From Godaiming—1 as Diphtheria. From Farnham—2 as Diphtheria. Population, 1937.—The figures for the admissions during the year under the heading proportion per 1,000, were worked upon poi)ulations as supplied by the Registrar General for mid-1936. As the figure is not available for the part of the Hambledon Rural District served by the Isolation Hospital, this figure cannot be included. For Farnham, of course, no figure is given as the admissions were only a proi)ortion of the cases which arose in Farn- ham during the year. (Signed) F. A. BELAM, Medical Officer.