[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Axbridge R.D.C.

  • Axbridge (Somerset, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Axbridge R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISEASE Total Cases notified Cases admitted to Isolation Hospital Total Death: Small Pox — _ Scarlet Fever- 17 11 — Diphtheria Enteric Fever (including 1 1 — paratyphoid) 1 1 - Measles 16 1 - Whooping Cough 113 1 - Puerperal Pyrexia - - - Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1 - - Cerebro-spinal Meningitis - - - Dysentery •. - - - Malaria - - — Pneumonia 13 1 — Acute Poliomyelitis - - - Encephalitis Lethargica - - - 162 16 TUBERCULOSIS Total cases Total notified Deaths Tuberculosis - Pulmonary 11 Non-Pulmonary 7 8 4 Number of Cases on Register at 31st. December, 1946 Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary TOTAL Male Female Male Female Male Female 30 30 8 6 38 36 DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION The following table shows the progress of immunisation against diphtheria:- Immunisation completed d-uring 1946 Under 5 years 5-15 years Number of children .197 38 A total of 4,028 children under the age of 15 years have completed a full course of Immunisation at any time up to 31st December 1946 against- an estimated mid-year population 1946 of 5,310. (i+)