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10 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1939.
Twelve doctors have been supplied with immunising material
by the Council and 38 children have been injected by them, of
whom 15 have given a negative re-Schick Test.
Nursing Service.
The District Nurses made 8,548 visits on behalf of the Council
to 231 cases of infectious disease and 543 children suffering from
minor ailments.
Special Treatment.
Five persons are receiving insulin treatment for diabetes
at the Council's expense and one person suffering from pernicious
anaemia is being supplied with Neo hepatex. The cost of this
service during the year was £13 15s. 2d.
Inquests.
Inquests were held during the year on 325 persons who died
in the Borough and 187 Borough residents who died elsewhere—
a total of 512 inquests. In 310 of these a verdict of death from
natural causes was returned; in 140 death was accidental; 35
were suicides; 15 resulted from war wounds; six were returned as
"found drowned"; there were five executions and one case of
murder.