[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight County Council.

  • Isle of Wight (England). County Council. n 83204987.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The number of samples examined by the Public Analyst was 140, of which 119 were milk. Three of these milk samples were broken in transit. One hundred and eleven of the milks were first samples and four of them were certified to be below the minimum standard fixed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, i.e., 3.6 per cent, of the first samples (7.6 per cent, in 1940 and 4.2 in 1939). Subsequent samples were taken in these cases which were certified to be non genuine and in one case this subse- quent sample also was below standard. A third sample was taken and this proved genuine. Legal proceedings were taken in five cases, one was dismissed and fines were imposed in the others of £1 in two cases and £2 in the other two cases with, ini each instance, 15/6 costs. Thirteen of the samples were sour when received by the Analyst. Ten of the milk samples contained dirty debris, one in marked amount. Of the 21 non-milk samples, 6 were of beef sausages and there were 5 of lard and 10 of butter. All but two of these were certified to be genuine. Two samples of beef sausages contained boric acid preservative and legal proceedings were taken ; the vendor in one case being fined £1 and in the other case the summons was withdrawn on account of a technicality. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Table III.—Notifications made to Medical Officers of Health during the 53 weeks ended 3rd January, 1942. (Registrar General’s Figures.) Isle of Wight Rural District. Cowes. Newport. Hyde. Sandown- Shanklin. Ventnor. Totals. Small Pox — — (-) Scarlet Fever l 2 5 10 3 — 21 (58) Diphtheria — — 2 1 — 1 4 (13) Enteric Fever — — — — 1 1 (-) Pneumonia 4 13 14 3 5 — 39 (38) Puerperal Pyrexia 3 — 11 2 3 1 20 (12) Cerebro-Spinal Fever 3 5 2 3 —- — 13 (20) Acute Poliomyelitis — — — — — — — (1) Erysipelas — — 5 4 — — 9 (9) Encephalitis Lethargica ... — — — 1 — — 1 (-) Ophthalmia Neonatorum 2 - 2 1 — -— 5 (5) Measles 86 166 278 164 26 6 726 (121) W hooping Cough 40 60 235 57 87 13 492 (7) Dysentery — — 1 — — — 1 (-) Pulmonary Tuberculosis 12 7 7 11 8 1 + 59 (69) Other forms of Tuberculosis 11 4 7 1 4 1 28 (19) Totals 162 257 569 258 136 37 1419 —(372) The notification of infectious diseases to the various medical officers of health numbered 1419 as against 372, 299 and 287 in the three previous years. Measles was moderately prevalent with 726 notifi- cations (121) and 1 death, and so also was whooping cough with 492 cases (7) and 4 deaths so apart from these two diseases there were but 201 notifications. There were 13 notifications of cerebro spinal fever (20) and 5 deaths, 1 fata? case of encephalitis lethargica (0) and no case of acute poliomyelitis (1). Scarlet fever notifications numbered 21 (58) and diphtheria 4 (13) and there was 1 case of paraty- phoid B fever (0) : 59 of pulmonary tuberculosis (69) and 28 of other forms of tuberculosis (19). TUBERCULOSIS. Table IV.—Showing the Number of New Cases and the Deaths from Tuberculosis during the Year.