[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Clevedon U.D.C.

  • Clevedon (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Clevedon U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rooms in respect of v^hich Closing Orders were determined, the tenement or room having been rendered fit 4. Housing Ac':. 19^6 - 0vercro7/ing: (;) Number of dwellings overcrowded at the end of the year 3 (ii) Number of families dv/elling therein 6 (iii) Number of persons dv/ellinr; therein 22 (b) Nu.nber .of new ca.-gs of overcrowding reperted, dur_:v r,nc yc.ar 1 (c) (i) Number of ca.e': overcrov/ding relieved during th.^ , -.aj _ , 2 (ii) Number of persons concerned in such cases 8 Inspection and Suuervisior of od. Milk Suopl-y. Producers on the. Register 31 Distributors '' ” .. ' ■ ' Distributors .only ' : ' 10 (b) Distributor producers • I8 Licenses to Graded Alilk Distributors 5 Accredited 2 T.T. 1 Infectious Diseases. The influenza epidemic of the spring showed signs of recommencing towards the end of the yea’p. cond spread over into the spring of 1940. The vvhooiJin, oougn 'whicii we experienced m\s not a severe type, and the scarlet fever vAas confined to three sporadic cases. The sin,ale c-^s? of parr?.~typhoid fever v/as probably due to inicre • ,jd j.r Bristol, and no other cases occurred. Pneumonia accounted for five docbhs, In spite of advertisement and persuasion at the Infant Y/elfare Clinic, the number oT young chi].dren, including evacuees, v.ho were brought forv/ard for immunisation against diptherir was disap^y^intingly small. A considerable number of children v/ere done under private arrangements, and there was a good response' •• monr^st school children, who were immunised by the School Medical .-Nsrvicc. ■I.