[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Westmorland County Council.

  • Westmorland (England). County Council
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Westmorland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH (VENEREAL DISEASES) REGULATIONS. Westmorland cases treated at the following Centres for the year ended 31st December, 1946, are as follows:— NEW CASES. Centre. Lancaster Syphilis. 7 Soft Chancre. Gonorrhoea. 13 Non- Venereal and un¬ diagnosed conditions. 28 Total No. of attend¬ ances of all patients residing in West’land. 261 Preston — — 2 1 29 Carlisle 4 — 5 11 158 Total . .. 11 - 20 40 448 This is independent of cases treated by patients’ own doctors. Regulation 33B, For the year ending 31st December, 1946, three single references were received. This is considerably less than in 1945. All these cases have been investigated. All applicants, before admission to St. Monica’s Maternity Home, Kendal, for unmarried mothers, have the Wassermann Test applied. Should any prove positive they are admitted to the Hope Hospital, Leeds, for appropriate treatment. No patients were admitted to this Hospital during 1946. In 1946, 210 blood specimens were sent to the Public Health Laboratory, Manchester, of which 15 were positive, 193 negative and two doubtful. Drugs were supplied to private practitioners where required. MENTAL AND NERVOUS DISORDERS CLINIC. This clinic was commenced at the Fellside Dispensary, Kendal, on Thursday, the 30th November, 1944, and thereafter fortnightly from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m,. The clinic is being conducted by Dr. Joseph Braithwaite, M.B., D.P.M1., Superinten¬ dent of the Cumberland and Westmorland Mental Hospital, Garlands, Carlisle. Dr .Braithwaite advises:— 1. As to whether the patients would benefit by institutional treatment, either on certificate or voluntarily.