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Barking 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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I have had no satisfactory explanation of this procedure,
although I have been in touch with the County Medical Officer.
*
You will remember I brought this matter up in my Report
for the year 1929.
(e) Encephalitis Lethargica.—There was one death from
encephalitis during 1930, the diagnosis being made post mortem.
The case was an acute one of unknown origin ; there was oedema
of the brain, but microscopical sections failed to reveal anything
further.
| New Cases. | Deaths. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| Male. | Female. | Male. | Female. | Male. | Female. | Male. | Female. | |
| Under 1 year | 1 | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ |
| 1 to 5 years | — | — | 4 | 2 | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| 5 to 10 years | — | — | 3 | 3 | — | 1 | — | - |
| 10 to 15 years | 2 | — | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | - |
| 15 to 20 years | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | — | - |
| 20 to 25 years | 6 | 7 | — | 1 | 9 | 4 | — | - |
| 25 to 35 years | 7 | 16 | — | — | 2 | 6 | — | - |
| 35 to 45 years | 3 | 7 | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | — | - |
| 45 to 55 years | 6 | 4 | — | — | 2 | - | 1 | - |
| 55 to 65 years | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | - | — | - |
| 65 yrs. & upwards | — | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | - |
| Totals | 30 | 41 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 22 | 2 | 1 |
No action has been takEn in any court of summary jurisdiction
under the Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1925, or under Section 62 of the Public Health Act. 1925, but you
have from time to time, on the representation of your officers, given
instructions for such action to be taken if necessary.
On the one hand a more enlightened public opinion in Barking
and on the other hand the knowledge that you are prepared to
enforce isolation have made it possible for us to arrange on a
voluntary basis isolation which could be enforced after application
to the magistrates.