[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Ruthin Borough.

  • Ruthin Town (Clwyd, Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Ruthin Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STATISTICS Birth Rate per 1000 head of population Illegitimate birth rate per 1000 : Still birth rate per 1000 population Illegitimate still birth rate per. 1000 still births Doath Rato per thousand population Deaths from Cancer Deaths from puerperal causos Deaths of infants under 1-year Deaths of illegitimate infants7 under 1 year Deaths from Measles Deaths from Whooping Cough Deaths from Diarhoea and enteritis under .2 years 14.4 England and Wales O.54 0.54 England and Wales 0 “ ‘ 14.4 England and Wales 11 0 2 ' 0 1 1 0 14.2 0.51 12.9 INSECTIOUS DISEASES • ■ There was an epidemic of whooping cough in the early winter months, with onef fatality in a baby under one year. where wore fourteen notifications of diptheria, many of them bacteriological, occurring in inmates of an institution for evacuees with scabies. There was only one notification of diptheria in an ordinary resident of the town and she was 2J. There was an epidemic of of Sonne dysontry in an institution in the town brought in from another town. Apart from Scabies, there was not any remarkable importation of infectious disease by evacuees. There were however two cases of paratyphoid in evacuees, who developed the disease after a Holiday at hone, where a relative.had had the disease. 68fo of the children of school age had been immunised against diphtheria up to the end of 1941* TUBERCULOSIS There wore 7 notifications of tuberculosis, 6 in females and those 6 pulmonary, the othor one non-pulnonary. This is an increaao, especially in females. The reduction in male notifications is probably accounted farr by the fact that the young men aro on military service. There is great difficulty in getting patiehts into sanatoria, owing to the shortage of nursing staff and domestic staff.