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maintenance allowances scheme:
Number of patients receiving weekly allowance in last week of year 1944 131
Number of applications brought before Assessment Officer 1,825
Number of new cases 179
Number of reapplications (by patients who had returned to work and
become ill again) 9
Number of renewals on existing orders 818
Number of orders adjusted, etc 633
Number of patients returning to full time work 81
Number of deaths 27
Other 'Cease payments' 78
1,825
Amount paid out in allowances during the year £10,646. 4. 11d.
ARTIFICIAL PNEUMOTHORAX:
121 Patients received treatment at a total cost of £644. 8. 9d.
EXTRA NOURISHMENT:
81 cases received extra nourishment at a total cost of £407. 9. 7d.
beds and bidding:
11 patients were provided with bod and bedding on loan.
DENTAL TREATMENT:
9 patients received treatment with assistance under the Council's scheme.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND DEATHS DURING THE YEAR 1944:
DISEASES.
No. of
Notifications,
No. of
Deaths.
Cases removed
to hospital.
Scarlet Fever
314
-
250
Diphtheria
94
2
94
Enteric Fever (including paratyphoid)
3
—
3
Puerperal Fever
19
4
18
Puerperal Pyrexia
32
-
28
Acute Primary & Influenzal Pneumonia
123
11
41
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
24
-
14
Encephalitis Lethargica
-
2
-
Cerebro-Spinal Fever
15
3
15
Anthrax
-
-
-
Dysentery
172
1
147
Malaria
7
-
6
Erysipelas
81
2
38
Measles
627
2
148
Whooping Cough
806
16
204
Acute Poliomyelitis
-
-
-
Acute Polioencephalitis
-
-
-
Scabies
1,391
-
-
The notification of each of the common infectious diseases shows a
reduction on the previous year with the exception of Whooping Cough in which
there has been a moderate increase. Malaria and Dysentery also show an
increase, the former, and possibly the latter also, being associated with the
movements of members of the armed forces.
Scabies also shows an actual increase in the number of notifications as
compared with the previous year, but was only notifiable for the latter part of
the year 1943.
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