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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Enfield 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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The zymotic death-rate, after deducting eight deaths of persons residing outside the District who died in Institutions in the District, and adding two deaths which occurred outside the District is 0.06 per 1,000 population.
| Disease. | 1937 | 1938 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Death-rate | Deaths. | Death-rate | |
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | 1 | .01 |
| Diphtheria | 4 | .04 | 1 | .01 |
| Enteric Fever | — | — | — | — |
| Small Pox | — | — | — | — |
| Measles | — | — | 3 | .03 |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | .02 | 1 | .01 |
| Epidemic Enteritis | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | 6 | .06 | 6 | .06 |
PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS.
No action was taken during the year under .Section 176 of
the Public Health Act, 1936, for the prevention of blindness
or for the treatment of persons suffering from any disease or injury
to the eyes
| Cases | Vision Unimpaired | Vision impaired | Total Blindness | Deaths | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified | Treated. | |||||
| At home. | In Hospital. | |||||
| 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Ophthlamia Neonatorum is notifiable by a General Practitioner
to the Medical Officer of Health. Where the case is attended by a
midwife it is her duty to notify the Local Supervising Authority and
to call in a Doctor. Since the 1st April, 1937, Enfield has been
the Local Supervising Authority and has therefore received double
notification as to these conditions which may be very serious.
The home is visited and steps taken to see that the child receives
adequate treatment, if necessary in an institution.
By arrangement with the Enfield and Edmonton Joint Hospital
Board babies suffering from Ophthalmia Neonatorum may be
admitted, if necessary with their mothers to the Isolation Hospital
for treatment.