[Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council.

  • Essex (England). County Council.
Date:
1946
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Credit: [Report 1946] / Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The notifications of infectious diseases are given nr Table VII together with thl figures for 1945 and 1944. This shows the usual wax and wane of disease such a Measles and Whooping Cough. The diphtheria figures continue to decline, the notifica tions of diphtheria each year since 1939 being : 1939 .. .. 965 1943 .. . . 351 1940 .. 617 1944 .. .. 160 1941 .. . . 662 1945 .. . . 219 1942 .. . . 457 1946 .. . . 152 ANNUAL NOTIFICATIONS OF DIPHTHERIA The diagram well shows the decline in notified cases since 1937. During the war the number of children resident in the county has varied com siderably from year to year owing to evacuation, return from evacuation and re- evacuation and this probably accounts for the irregularities in the decline. The rise in 1945 can almost certainly be put down to the general return of children, evacuatec outside the county. Puerperal pyrexia notifications show a decided rise to 327, the highest figure „ recorded since 1937 when the present regulations came into force, but when the numbex of cases is related to the number of births, the rise is found to be of small dimension*1 j and the rate per 1,000 live births much lower than pre-war figures. Year. Notifications. Rate per 1,000 live births. 1938 • • 318 15.5 1939 308 14.7 1940 249 12.8 1941 192 10.5 1942 230 10.5 1943 225 10.0 1944 186 7.6 1945 228 10.2 1946 327 11.0