[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire Council
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hospital in 192 -scs helonging In ll IC Cniinly were Irc'; Cases ]iaid for by the County Council. Child Welfare, Tuberculosis and i School Cases. i Under 5 years. —-^ 1 5—14 I Over ' t 1 : 10 39 1 4'> I 24 2 7 I 33 12 4 12 • • 1 I 17 . I .. 1 1 3 6 2 12 56 136 40 JMseasc. Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints Tuberculous Glands and Abscesses Rickets Poliomyelitis ., Scoliosis Club foot and claw foot - Other deformities Fractures Other diseases Other conditions Cases not ])aid for by the County Council. Child Welfare, Tuberculosis and School Cases. Under 5 years, i 5—14 Totals . 2 I Over 14 7 I 9 I 5 3 I o o 4 30 6 4 6 6 6 5 18 53 The importance of early treatment in Poliomyelitis is so great tliat arrangements liave hppn ; made for a specially trained nurse to be sent, on receipt of a wire, to help the inedical practitioner and afterwards to get the patient to the hospital if necessary. ^ praetitionei ulinlp »”tfer the control of the County Council for the II tnti li ounty ( ouncil works through a local committee which includes represen « rennrt‘ ^ C.ommittee and the County Medical Officer of Health. A inonthlv port including a complete financial statement is furnished to the County Council. The number of cases in 1920 were : — Admitted 49, Discharged 43, Died 8. The cases were diagnosed on admission as :— ''^’'TleWlhv a rUbetT'r’i ”proper feeding 28, prematurity, inanition or li u -f’, 3, tubercular enteritis and peritonitis 2. septicaemia, chronic sepsis mentally deficient i, congenital syphilis 3, other conditions 4. P • -> from prema Irifvl'' <mo fmm aruto rickets an,l one