[Report 1940-1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council.

  • Nottinghamshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1940-1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottinghamshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MENTAL DEFICIENCY ACTS. The work carried out through the Mental Deficiency Service is indicated by the following abstract of the main statistics :— Number of cases reported during year .. Total number reported and verified since the re-organisation of the Service in 1933 Total number of known defectives at end of year Incidence of mental defect per 1,000 of population (Estimated incidence—Lewis Report : 8 per 1,000) Number under Supervision Supervision visits during year Petitions presented and Orders obtained during year :— Institution Guardianship Varying Orders .. .. .. ' Place of Safety Orders H.M. Secretary of State Orders Number under Guardianship ,, in institutions In-County Out-County ,, on licence .. .. . ,, discharged Occupation Centre—Attendances Home Teaching—Number visited ,, of visits *Setvice temporarily supended during November 1940. 1941. 106 127 2,088 2,215 2,084 2,118 4.31 4.3 3,866 3,942 961 1,020 3,620 3,534 14 14 20 2 3 3 2 5 3 1 101 100 81 84 221 220 25 21 2 8 3,620 3,155 72 77 990 918 and December. THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF VENEREAL DISEASES. {a) Mansfield Treatment Centre. The number of attendances niade at this Centre during the years 1940 and 1941, and the number of new cases, excluding cases known to have received treatment at other Centres for the same infection, were as follows :— Year Syphilis Soft Chancre Gonorrhoea Conditions other than Venereal Totals Grand Total M F M' F M F M F M F 1940 1661 1003 29 (rt) ATTE Medic 1326 NDAN al Ofh 1365 CES. cers’ S 71 ession' 114 3087 2482 5569 1941 1053 878 1 — 1587 1502 124 139 2765 2517 5282 1940 73 39 34 [h] Inter 3455 mediat 2986 e Sess 29 ions. 88 3591 3113 6704 1941 28 18 3 — 4077 3579 76 57 4184 3654 7838 1940 19 16 3 — NEW 72 CASE 39 S.' 39 42 133 97 230 1941 14 4 10 1 — 70 52 49 51 134 113 247‘ The figures for new cases for either year are considerably lower than any previous annual figures.