[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Llanelli / Llanelly Borough.

  • Llanelli (Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Llanelli / Llanelly Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEAR 1929 IN THE VARIOUS WARDS. Disease Ca ses notified Total Cases ad- mit- ted to Hos- pital Cases dis- char- ged from Hos- pital ! | Total Deaths Ward 1 Ward 2 Ward 3 cases noti- fied Enteric Fever 2 i 1 4 2 1 2 Malaria ... i — — 1 — — 1 Small Pox — — 1 1 If If — Scarlet Fever 16(17) 14 9 39 (40) 19 20 -— Diphtheria 27 (30) 17 10 54 34 28 1 Pneumonia 11 23 19 (57)t 53 — — 27 Chicken Pox 33 21 70 124 — — — Puerperal Fever 3 — 2 5 — — 9* Puerperal Pyrexia 3 2 3 8 — — — Ophthalmia Neonatorum 3 — 1 4 — — — Erysipelas 3 6 1 10 1 1 — Encephalitis Le'.hargici .... 1 — — 1 — — i Tuberculosis :— 1 Males .... 12 10 11 33 21 9 23 Pulmonary Females 7 3 4 14 10 11 12 (Males .... 2 9 4 15 3 2 5 Non-Pulmonary (Females —- 4 4 8 1 — 5 The numbers in brackets are those for the calendar year. The other numbers are those of the Registrar-General for 52 weeks. * The cause of one death was otherwise classified by the Registrar-General, f Removed to Aberdare Small Pox Hospital. X 59 cases were notified, but the diagnoses were amended in two cases and the notifications were withdrawn—Ward I.: one case; tonsillitis; Ward III.: acute tonsillitis (died).