[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Rotherham R.D.C.
- Rotherham (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1946
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Rotherham R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Clinically scarlet fever has been a mild disease and has caused no deaths in the 578 cases notified in the pc.st five years. Nineteen cases were treated at home during 1946. There is no objection to the ordinary mild case of scarlet fever being nursed at home provided a bedroom is available for isolation and the mother can be relied upon to give the case adequate attention. Tuberculosis. «• . . .' . * w .r, • i' • , 1 1, »• . 1 • , 1 Pulmonary. Non- Pulmonary. Total. | Tuberculosis cases on the Register at the beginning of the year. 1 143 1 41 184 i Tuberculosis cases on the Register on 31st December, 1946. 156 ; ... 47 • •• • * : 203 Tuberculosis notifications received during 1946. 31 13 • • 44 Cases transferred -to the district during 1946. 6 mm 6 Total number of cases removed from the Register during 1946. 24 7 ... ■ 1 ' m 31 .. Deaths from Tuberculosis. (included in figures given.above) 13 . .3 t . | t ! M [ 05 ! i——-i Cases transferred to.other districts; ]l 4 . • • - ' j h. ; Among the 31 new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis notified were 11 colliery workers, 4 housewives, 2 discharged soldiers, 2 clerka, 2 -steelworkers and 2 conductresses. Six of the 13 non-pulmonary cases were children with tuberculous glands in the neck. There were 16 deaths from tuberculosis, 13 of which were of the pulmonary type. There was no preponderance of any.one occupation in these 13 cases, -■ • ■ Two deaths from non-pulmonary tuberculosis were in children of five years of age with tuberculous meningitis. -9a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30043207_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
