[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (Other than TUBERCULOSIS) FOR THE YEAR 1947 Total cases Cases Admitted Total notified to Hosp. Deaths Scarlet Fever ... (in writing) 18 27 Whooping Cough 132 6 I Erysipelas ... — — — Measles ... 342 9 2 Puerperal Pyrexia I — _ Diphtheria I 3 — Pneumonia 6 — — Acute Poliomyelitis 3 I — (APM and APE)' 503 45 0 CANCER Operative, X-rav and radium treatment is available at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Children. The Child Guidance Service continued to do excellent work for a wide area of East Kent. The numbers referred to the Clinic continued to rise. A full report of its work is to be found at the end of the Report of the School Medical Officer. Adults. A Psycho-therapeutic Clinic was held at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital by the Medical Superintendent of the Kent and County Mental Hospital, Charthain. The Health Visitor was available as an authorised officer for the purposes of Section 17 of the Mental Treatment Act, 1930. Institutional Provision for the Care of Mental Defectives. Mental Defectives requiring institutional care were sent to certified institutions in various parts of the country as vacancies occurred. The Municipal Hospital was a])proved by the Board of Control for the reception of ten male and ten female adult defectives, and was a certified institution within the meaning of Section 37 of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, as amended. GENERAL Administration of Institutional Medical Services. There have been no alterations in the administration of institutional Medical Services during 1947. Poor Law Medical Out-Relief. This service was continued throughout the year.