[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Cockermouth R.D.C.
- Cockermouth (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1941
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Cockermouth R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![From notifications received it is deduced that ] in every 451 persons in this district contracted a disease notifiable under the Infectious Diseases Notification Act (Chickenpox, Measles and Whooping Cough excluded) and Tuberculosis Regulations. (In 1940 the figures were 1 in 360). (Vide Post re Measles and Wlinojjing Cnuah) There were only 4 cases of Diphtheria (see Distribution Table Page 25). Two were removed to Hospital. There was 1 death (an Infant). None of the cases had been previously inoculated against the disease. The case rate of Diphtheria per 1000 of the population was therefore .20 as compared with .15 for 1940. (The corresponding rate for all England and Wales was 1.25). The Diphtheria death rate per 1000 of the population was .2 as compared with nil for 1940. The rate (1941) for England and Wales was .07. Throughout the country a campaign of immunisation against Diphtheria was initiated by the Minister of Health. In this dis- trict by the end of the year 1,777 children under 15 years of age, or approxiiinately 42.7 per cent., received the two immunising doses of A.P.T. (Alum praecipitated toxoid) as sponsored by the Minister of Health. I'N.B.—I/nfiaoitS' und'eT 1 year of aije are not ino.culaited). 271 of the above number of children, or approximately 19.2 per cent., were over one but under 5 years of age. Most of the work was carried out personally by me at the local schools and the Cockermouth School Clinic, but I am grateful for the help of Dr. Munro, of the County Health Staff, the co-operatioji of local Medical Practitioners, Head 'I eacliers, llie various district Nurses, and particularly the County Health Visitor, Miss Lawson, upon whom much extra work has fallen. Seven cases of Scarlet k'ever were notified (1940—14)—vide distribution table page 25—and were mainly mild in type. Six were removed to Hospital. No death occurred, so that the death rate from Scarlet Fever was again nil. The case rate of Scarlet Fever per 1000 of the population was therefore, .35 as compared with .73 for 1940. (The corresponding rate for England and Wales was 1.47, and death rate .00). Ten cases of Pneumonia were notified, 1 of which died. The registered deaths from this disease (all forms) numbered 16. Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, Encephalitis Lethargica, Acute Poliomyelitis and Ophthalmia Neonatorum.-—No notifications.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29117768_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
