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Beckenham 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Beckenham]

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PUERPERAL FEVER.
One fatal case was notified during the year.
ERYSIPELAS.
Fourteen cases were notified.
CHICKEN-POX.
This infection was prevalent among School Children during the
first three months of the year, and 86 cases were notified through
the School Medical Service.
MUMPS.
Ten cases were notified in children attending the Elementary
Schools.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Fifty cases, 29 males and 21 females, were notified during the
year, as compared with 53 cases in the year 1919. 20 deaths
occurred as against 31 deaths in the previous year.
Table 1 gives a classification of the cases notified and the deaths,
according tp age, sex, site of disease, and the Wards in which they
resided.
The Medical Officer of Health is Tuberculosis Officer for this
area, and is in charge of the Tuberculosis Dispensary under the
Scheme of the Kent County Council. The Senior Health Visitpr
also acts as Tuberculosis Nurse, so that the Health Department is
in close touch with all notified cases pf the disease, and has detailed
information as to the home conditions, the progress, and treatment
of every case.