[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Ulverston U.D.C.
- Ulverston (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1952
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Ulverston U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(a) Proceedings under section 1 2 of the Housing Act, 1936i (1 ) Lumber of separate tenements or under¬ ground rooms in respect of which Closing Ordei nil (2) Number of separate tenements or under- which Closing ground rooms in respect of Orders were determined, the tenement or room having been rendered fit nil PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE. The incidence of infectious disease has again been low, whooping cough providing the greatest number of notified cases, namely 37. Pour houses were disinfected by formaldehyde vapour after infectious disease and clothing and bedding has been steam disinfected, when necessary, at Devonshire Road Hospital, Barrow. Since 1st July, 1952? the policy has been adopted of disinfecting houses only after tuberculosis and smallpox. Bedding and clothing is still steam disinfected following a] 1 c a 36 S w here these articles are likely t 0 be a method of spre ad. 1952 H umhe r : Removed of to Disease 1947 1 9L8 : 1949 1 950 1 95I cases„ hespital, Deaths. Scarlet Fever, 6 33 i 17 15 ! 5 11 1 0 0 Diphtheria. 0 0 : 1 0 0 0 0 0 Measles. :.56... 1 0 208 i 16 7 0 0 Whooping C ouglio 3 0 46 30 i 32 37 0 0 Pneumonia. 5 8 6 0 : 0 0 0 0 Polio - myelitis. J ... 6. 0 ~7 . J 0 0 1 1 0 Polio— encephalitis 1 0. 0 0 : 0 0 0 0 Cerebro- .spinal fever ... 1 0 1 0 ■ 0 0 0 0 Dysentery« Encephalitis ., 0. : 0. .0.. i.0 . ; 1 1 1 0. lethargica. A 0 0 0 i 0 0 0 0 ; TOTALS. 79 ! 42 74 1253 ; 34 37 \ 9 0 -7-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3020091x_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
