[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, County of Zetland (Shetland Islands).

  • Shetland (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, County of Zetland (Shetland Islands). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dysentery there were other small outbreaks of infectious diarrhoeal conditions about which information is scanty, as many of the cases were too mild for the affected household to want to send for medical help. Particulars of houso disinfections carried out are given in the Sanitary Inspector’s report. County Isolation Hospital 95 patients were treated in the Isolation Hospital. This figure is 42 fewer than last year, but included some severely ill cases which gave heavy work for the small nursing staff of this institution. New apparatus for the administration of oxygen was acquired during the year and proved most useful. The following table shows the work done and the illnesses treated:- Bed accommodation - 32 Total admissions - 95 Total discharges - 92 Total deaths - 7 Beds occupied:- Average during year 6.1 Highest ” tt _ 11 Lowest ” ?? 2 Illnesses treated:- Acute retention of urine Acute rheumatism Bronchitis Cellulitis of knee Chickenpox Dermatitis Diphtheria Dysentery Enteritis Erysipelas Erythema Nodosum Flexner dysentery Heart disease Impetigo Infective hepatitis Influenza Measles Meningitis Mump s Paralysis agitans Paratyphoid Fever Pericarditis pleurisy Pleurisy with effusion Pneumonia Puerperal pyrexia Pulmonary tuberculosis Rubella Septiceaemia Scarlet fever/