[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council.

  • Warwickshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTIFIABLE DISEASES AND DEATHS, 1928. Total Cases notified. Total Deaths. Death rate per 1,000 population. 1927. 1928, Small Pox . 124 4 — 0.01 Scarlet Fever 668 6 0.02 0.016 Diphtheria 367 25 0.06 0.07 Enteric Fever 49 3 0.007 0.008 Pneumonia . 513 224 0.75 0.63 Encephalitis Lethargica Tuberculosis :— 18 15 0.04 0.04 (a) Pulmonary 285 201 0.64 0.56 (h) Non-Pul monary 108 56 0.12 0.10 Puerperal Fever 25 13 1.07 per 1,000 Births. 2.13 per 1,000 Births. 17. Small Pox.—The epidemic referred to in my last Annual Report as having commenced in the last three months of the year 1927, continued during the early months of 1928, when 124 cases were notified. Of these 52 occurred in the Borough of Nuneaton, 18 in Atherstone Rural District, 18 in Foleshill Rural District, 14 in Coventry Rural District before the Coventry Extension came into force, and the remainder occurred chiefly in Poor Law Institutions, the disease being introduced there by the vagrant class from other infected areas. The Foleshill and Coventry Rural cases were admitted to the Pinley Small Pox Hospital, Coventry, and the Nuneaton and Atherstone cases to Bramcote Small Pox Hospital, Nuneaton. It was found necessary also to open the Fosse Small Pox Hospital, Leamington, and the Lawford Heath Small Pox Hospital, Rugby. 18. There were 4 deaths registered from this disease, 2 in Foleshill Rural District, 1 in Coventry Rural and 1 in Leamington Spa. The last named was a resident who contracted the disease and died in the Warwick Poor Law Infirmary. 19. Vaccination.-—During the year ending 30th June, 1928, 1,968 children were success¬ fully vaccinated out of 6,089 births registered during that period, or 32.3 per cent., and during the same period 3,275 certificates of conscientious objection were issued or 53.7 per cent, of all births. It is of interest to note that the least vaccinated district in the County—Nuneaton Borough—had the greatest number of Small-pox cases during the recent outbreak. In this Borough only 71 infants were successfully vaccinated last year out of 878 births, and 637 conscientious objection certificates were issued. There were, however, so many applications for vaccination during the epidemic, that a special centre had to be opened by the Guardians for this purpose within the Borough. 20. Scarlet Fever.—668 notifications were received as against 792 in the previous year. Although there was a slight reduction in incidence, the disease appears to have been general throughout the County, no single district having escaped. It was most prevalent, however, in the Borough of Nuneaton, in Foleshill, Atherstone, Tamworth and Meriden Rural Dis¬ tricts, and in the Borough of Sutton Coldfield. Six deaths were recorded, giving a mortality of 0.016 per 1,000 population, and a case mortality of 0.89 per cent. 21. Diphtheria.—367 cases were notified as compared with 385 in the previous year. Like Scarlet Fever the disease was fairly general throughout the County, with the greatest incidence in Foleshill and Tamworth Rural Districts, and in the Borough of Sutton Cold¬ field. In no District has immunisation against Diphtheria been offered yet to parents. This preventive measure has, however, been introduced and is being taken advantage of in the tw'O Cities of Birmingham and Coventry. 22. 25 deaths from Diphtheria were registered, 8 males and 17 females, mostly of the ages 2 to 5 and 5-15 years, giving a mortality of 0.07 per 1,000 of population. The case mortality was 6.8 per cent.