[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Chadderton U.D.C.

  • Chadderton (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1918
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Credit: [Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Chadderton U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Aiiti-Diplitlieritic Seriiin is supplied by the Council free of cliarg’e. During office liours it can be obtained at the Town Hall, and at otlier times from the Police Stations in Victoria Street and Butler (jiuen. During- the year eighteen tubes of 2,000 units each were supplied. PUERPERAL FEVER.—No case was notified during the year. The previous year one case was noti- fied; this case recovered. ERYSIPELAS.—Thirty- six (-ases, including two at the (diadderton Camp, were notified during the year. No deaths occurred from this disease. The previous year twenty-seven notifications were received, and all the cases recovered. WHOOPING GOUGH.—Eleven deaths (four males, seven females) were registered from this disease, giving a death-rate of 0.43 per 1,000. Last year there were two deaths, giving a death-rate of 0.07 per 1,000. TUBERCULOSIS.—N inety-eight primary notifica- tions of this disease were received, 54 being of flie Pulmonary Eorm and 44 of Other Eorms. The ])reA4ous year 100 primary notifications were receHed, 49 being of the Pulmonary Eorm and 51 of the Otlier Eorms. This A^ear 33 deaths occurred from Pulmonarv Tuberculosis and five from Other Eorms, against 35 and 10 the previous year; the death-rates being 1.31 ])er 1,000 for the Pulmon- ary horni and 0.19 jrer 1,000 for the ()ther Eorms, against 1.33 and 0.38 per 1,000 respectiA-ely for the previous year. For 191G the death-rates were 1.04 and 0.41 per 1,000. There is no Sanatorium in the Distrit-t. Twentv-fiAm cases of Pulmonarv Tubercidosis and f. t nine cases of Non-Pulmonaj'V Tuberculosis Avere sent fo Sanatoria or Hospitals by the Eam-ashire Insurance Com-