[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Benfleet U.D.C., Canvey Island U.D.C., Rayleigh U.D.C.

  • Benfleet (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Benfleet U.D.C., Canvey Island U.D.C., Rayleigh U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the following day to the Billericay Isolation Hospital. Whilst at Billericay, it was discovered that the girl was suffering from Infantile Paralysis as well. In January, 1948 she was transferred once more, this time to the Oldchurch Hospital, Romford. There she remained until being discharged home in August, 1948. The paralysis which, at the onset, developed in the patient’s left arm and leg, had been remedied considerably by the time she left the hospital as an In-patient. However, since that time she has continued to attend a local hospital for exercises and physiotherapy. In February, 1949 there was a great improvement although she continues to receive treatment for her “dropped foot” as a result of the paralysis. Non-notifiable Infectious Diseases. The only source of available information for collating details of cases coming within this category is the reports of Head Teachers from local Maintained Schools of the Essex Education Authority on the absence of children through infectious illness. These reports revealed that Mumps and Chicken Pox were more prevalent than the previous year. Nearly 40 cases of Mumps and 120 cases of Chicken Pox were brought to notice in this way. These figures, coming as they do from non-medical sources, are necessarily incomplete and do not include children below School age who so often contract disease from other members of the family of school age. However, the figures provided are a very useful guide. T uberculosis. A total of 23 new cases were notified locally for the first time during the year, in accordance with the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930. In addition, 14 cases were brought to notice by other means. Of these latter, two were discovered from the death returns, one through an admission notice from one of the Tuberculosis Hospitals and the remaining eleven were inward transfers from other areas. The areas concerned were Middlesex (2), Effst Ham (1), Stepney (1), West Ham (1), Ilford (1), Pitsea (1) and County Borough of Southend (4). All these cases are classified in the table below. It is regretted that 16 people died from Tuberculosis during the year as shown on the following table. Of these cases, 14 were notified since 1945. The male death from Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis refers to a child aged \\ years who was notified by the London Hospital on the 14th July, 1948 as suffering from Tuberculous Meningitis and who died four days later in that same hospital. Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary Male Female Male Female Notifications 8 11 1 3 Inward Transfers, etc. •• 8 5 1 — Deaths 8 7 1 —