[Report 1945] / Scunthorpe Borough.

  • Scunthorpe (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Scunthorpe Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SHOWING THE NUMBER OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED BY MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS DURING 1945. (CORRECTED DIAGNOSIS). Disease. No. Scarlet Fever . 108 Whooping Cough . 34 Acute Polioencephalitis . 1 Measles. 411 Diphtheria . 41 Acute Pneumonia . 28 Dysentery . 243 Erysipelas . 11 Cerebro-spinal Fever. 2 Pueperal Pyrexia . 19 Ophthalmia Neonatorum. 4 Pulmonary Tuberculosis . 67 Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis . 13 Total . 982 SPECIMENS EXAMINED BACTERIOLOGICALLY DURING 1945. For Veneral Diseases (from doctors excluding V.D. Clinic) For Widal Reaction . Cerebro-spinal Fluid. Faeces for Dysentery Sonne. For Tubercle Bacilli (T.B Dispensary) . Urine and Faeces for Enteric Bacilli. For Diphtheria . Blood for Culture . Milks . Drinking Water (sent by Health Department) . Swimming Bath Water . 61 288 10 1 572 25 10 TUBERCULOSIS, 1945. New Cases. Cases on Borough Register. Deaths. Non- Non- Non- Pulm. Pulm. Total. Pulm. Pulm. Total. Pulm. Pulm. Total 67 13 80 277 94 371 14 2 16 PARKINSON AVENUE SCHOOL CLINIC. Total Number of Attendances . 9,234 Total Number of Patients seen by Doctor . 726 3—