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Wearing Apparel - 47
Box Making - 2
Brush Making - 2
Feather Sorting - 2
In no case was it necessary to restrict work on
account of infectious disease.
NATIONAL ASSITANCE ACT. 1948.
Section 47. Removal to suitable premises of persons
in need of care and attention.
No formal action was taken under this Section
whereby the Council are enabled to secure the removal
to suitable accommodation of persons who being aged,
infirm, or suffering from chronic disease are living
in insanitary conditions and are unable to devote to
themselves and are not receiving from other persons
proper care and attention.
Five cases were investigated in which elderly
persons were found to be living under unsatisfactory
circumstances and arrangements were made for them to
be admitted to hospitals and nursing homes.
Section 50. Burial or Cremation of the dead.
No action was necessary under this section by
which it is the duty of the Council to arrange for the
burial or cremation of any person who has died or been
found dead and it appears that no suitable arrangements
for the disposal of the body have been made.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Table 1 on page 17 of this Report gives details
of all cases of infectious disease notified during 1951.
The total of 497 is lower than in the previous year595,
and the decrease is explained by a fell in the
number of cases of Whooping Cough end Scarlet Fever.
The infectious sickness rate- was 17.4 as compared with
20.3 in 1950.
Measles. The number of cases notified was only slightly
lower than in 1950 - 317 as compared with 327. The
type of disease was mild, admission to hospital being
necessary only in 6 cases.
Whooping Cough. There was a substantial drop in the
. number of notifications of this disease - 91 being
notified as against 150 in the previous year. In 3
cases only was hospital treatment necessary. A scheme
for immunisation against whooping cough either alone
or in conjunction with diphtheria immunisation is
undertaken by the County Council.
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