[Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Llanelli / Llanelly Borough.

  • Llanelli (Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1936
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Credit: [Report 1936] / Medical Officer of Health, Llanelli / Llanelly Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ISOLATION HOSPITAL—COUNTY ADMISSIOl^ Scarlet Fever. 1 wo cases of this disease were admitted into the Isolation Hospital. A third case admitted on account of diphtheria was found to have scarlet fever. In each case the illness was of a mild character. One was discharged cured in 33 days ; one was transferred to the County Isolation Hospital at the end of 15 days, while the third after recovery was transferred to the Swansea General Hospital on account of another condition after a stay in the Isolation Hospital of 39 days. While in the Isolation Hospital this child developed an abscess of the neck which required to be incised. After the release of the pus the condition quickly cleared up. Diphtheria.—Eighteen patients were admitted with a diagnosis of diphtheria but two of them were rediagnosed after admission as suffering from scarlet fever and tonsillitis, respectively. There were also nine patients admitted in 1935 who were still in hospital on 1st January, 1936. Of the cases admitted into hospital in 1936 one patient was aged under one year ; three between the ages of 1 and 5 years ; eight between 5 and 10 years ; four between 10 and 15 years. Of these 16 patients one was admitted in a dying condition and death took place within two hours after admission. The remainder—15—had a mild type of the disease and eleven were discharged after recovery, while four were transferred to the County Isolation Hospital. In only one case was there any complication—cardiac weakness—but recovery had apparently taken place before discharge. The patient with tonsillitis was discharged ■ at the end of 13 days. The duration of the stay of the total of 20 patients treated in the hospital in 1936 whose treatment had been completed in the Borough Isolation Hospital, ranged from 27 to 93 days—the average duration of stay being 34.3 days. Erysipelas.—One patient was admitted with this disease and was discharged cured after a stay of 29 days. The prolonged stay in hospital was due to a swelling on the left buttock possiby caused by local reaction of the anti-erysipelas serum which had been injected. ISOLATION HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION. In view of the unfit condition of the ward block erected in 1902 it has not been used for a considerable time. There is now