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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 1936
[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 one death of a person who died outside the District, is 0.12 per 1,000 population.
| Disease. | 1935. | 1936. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Death-rate. | Deaths. | Death-rate. | |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | .01 | 1 | .01 |
| Diphtheria | 2 | .02 | ||
| Enteric Fever | 2 | .02 | 1 | .01 |
| Small Pox | ||||
| Measles | 5 | .06 | ||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | .01 | 3 | .03 |
| Epidemic Enteritis | ||||
| Totals | 6 | .07 | 10 | . 12 |
PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS.
No action was taken during the year under Section 66 of the
Public Health Amendment Act, 1925, for the prevention of blindness
or for the treatment of persons suffering from any disease or
injury to the eyes.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
| Cases. | Vision Unimpaired. | Vision impaired. | Total Blindness. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified. | Treated. | |||||
| At Home. | In Hospital. | |||||
| 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | — | — | — |
It is the duty of the midwife who discovers that a child is
suffering from discharge from the eyes, to notify the County Medical
Officer immediately. A local practitioner is then called in to see
the case, whose duty it is to notify me forthwith. The child is
visited by one of the Maternity and Child Welfare Nurses, who
reports thereon to me, and the information is passed on to the
County Medical Officer of Health.