Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1943.

  • Chelsea (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
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[1944]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1943. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL (ABRIDGED) REPORT of the MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH For the year 1943. To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea. Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit my Annual Report on the health and sanitary conditions of the Borough for 1943. As in the three preceding years, by direction of the Ministry of Health, the present Report is an abridged and interim one, and omits the figures of the population, birth rate, and death rate, for reasons of security. i The health of the population has continued to be satisfactory, notwithstanding prevailing conditions. There was no serious outbreak of infectious disease during the year under review. The number of notified cases of diphtheria continues small, and it is reasonable to regard this as mainly due to the immunisation work carried out in the past at the Chelsea Diphtheria Immunisation Clinic. None of the notified cases had completed a course of immunisation before the onset of the disease. There has been a progressive increase in Maternity and Child Welfare work, the number of attendances alone (1714), by mothers at the ante-natal clinic, constituting a notable record. Approval was given in November by the Ministry of Health for the establishment of a second war-time nursery, to accommodate 96 children, at Cheyne Hospital for children. This was opened on 15th February, 1944. The scheme for Special allowances for those who have given up work to undergo treatment for Tuberculosis became operative on July 1st. Of the forty-six cases considered, forty-two have been granted allowances, I should like to thank members of the Council for the support and sympathetic consideration which they have extended to mo and for their attention to the problems which it has been my duty to lay before them. I am, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, W.H.L. McCarthy, M.D., D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health. Public Health Department, Town Hall, CHELSEA, S.W. 3. August, 1944.