[Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Llanelli / Llanelly Borough.

  • Llanelli (Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1930
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Credit: [Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Llanelli / Llanelly Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Notifiable Diseases during the year 1930 in the various Wards. Disease Cases notified Total cases noti- fied Cases ad- mit- ted to Hos- pital Cases dis- char- ged from Hos- pital Total Deaths- Ward 1 Ward 2 Ward 3 Scarlet Fever .... * 23 (24) 9 3 35 (38) 22 22 — Diphtheria 12 (15) 12 (13) 3 27 (31) 15 17 3 Pneumonia 21 25 13 59 — — 28 Enteric Fever .... *4 — — 4 4 — — Chicken Pox 27 38 29 94 — — — Erysipelas 2 5 1 8 — — Puerperal Fever 1 — — 1 — — — Puerperal Pyrexia — 2 (3) 1 3(4) — — Ophthalmia Neonatorum 3 3 1 7 — — Encephalitis Lethargica .... 1 1 2 * One case double infection—enteric fever and scarlet fever (included under both diseases). Scarlet Fever.—35 cases were notified during the year—0.92 per 1,000 of the population. Of these, 22 were admitted into the Isolation Hospital. No deaths resulted. Four of the cases admitted were re-diagnosed as measles, but the notifications were not withdrawn by the doctor. Diphtheria.—27 cases were notified in 1930—0.71 per 1,000 of the population. Three deaths occurred, two of them after admission into the Isolation Hospital. The case mortality was 9.7 per cent. One patient died subsequently to the operation of tracheotomy ; the other case died from acute toxaemia. The death rate from diphtheria was 0.07 per 1,000. Enteric Fever.—Four cases of enteric fever were notified towards the end of the year, all from the same family. Careful enquiries were instituted with the object of discovering the source of infection. No history could be obtained that the infection had been carried by food. The conclusion was arrived at that the source of infection was another member of the family who proved to be a carrier, but