[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Somerset County Council.

  • Somerset Council
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Somerset County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'I’ABJ.E X. Casts treated through the Count} Dispensaries. Dispensary. Persons treated at Dispensaries during 1941. Ifnder treatment at Dispensaries December 31st, 1941. Total Dispensary Attendances 1941. Total Persons examined 1941. Insured. Uninsured. Insured. Uninsured. Bath (County) 6 3,6 2 17 346 141 Bridgwater ■ 191 160 22 40 1,061 459 Jiristol 3 18 1 5 228 105 Chard 31 41 9 10 456 151 Clevedon *... 25 75 2 10 444 160 Frome 2 10 2 9 132 57 Glastonbury 5 13 2 2 146 86 Minehead 103 156 76 95 757 259 lladstock 4 28 3 21 221 98 Shepton Alallet 17 13 — 2 173 106 Taunton 240 181 62 42 1,399 622 Wellington 20 30 6 5 159 75 Weston-sujjer-Mare ... 11 118 8 72 1,192 466 Wincanton 12 8 1 3 107 65 Yeovil 32 55 11 25 699 325 702 942 207 358 7,520 3,181 1,644 565 Quantuck Summer Camp. The Camp was not held this year. Tuberculosis Officer’s Clinical Report for 1941. Dr. Short, County Tuberculosis Officer, has written the following reiDort:— I The winter 1940-41, and the first hail of 1941, brought the greatest increase in the number and severity of the cases of tuberculosis in Somerset since the war of 1914-lS, and although the pressure eased towards the end of the year, both the number of new cases seen and the immhcrs treated at the Dispensaries constitute a record for the County. The severity of the new cases may be inferred from the tact that iloo were already T.B. + , the highest number for 20 years. The staff also had to put in an exce])tional number of \isits to j)atients too ill to attend the clinics, while Artificial Pneumothorax refills also reached their peak. Numbers of evacuees, both official and unofficial, were found urgently in need of treatment, mainly institutional, and this strained our accommodation to the utmost. Evacuees with tuber¬ culosis find it almost impossible to obtain billets, and this still complicates the position in Somerset.