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Hornchurch 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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CASE RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN
THE YEAR 1948.
(Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population.)
Local figures compared with England and Wales and certain towns.
| England and Wales | 126 C.B.s and Great Towns including London. | 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Pop. 25,000-50,000 at 1931 Census) | London Admin. County. | Horn church. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notifications:- | |||||
| Typhoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | - |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1.73 | 1.90 | 1.82 | 1.37 | 1.08 |
| Whooping Cough | 3.42 | 3.51 | 3.31 | 3.13 | 2.52 |
| Diphtheria | 0.08 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.01 |
| Erysipelas | 0.21 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.24 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 9.34 | 9.75 | 8.84 | 9.17 | 8.49 |
| Pneumonia | 0.73 | 0.84 | 0.60 | 0.57 | 0.56 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.08 |
| Acute Polioencephalitis | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births. | |||||
| Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia | 6.89 | 8.90 | 4.71 | 7.34 | 1.12 |
| A dash (-) signifies absence of notifications. | |||||
SECTION B.
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR
THE AREA.
National Health Service Act, 1946.
This Act duly came into operation on the 5th July, 1948, and
prior to that date meetings were held and considerable discussion
took place with the Local Health Authority on the question of our
position relative to the de-centralisation of administration. It should
be pointed out that so far as the Act affected our powers, we as a
Sanitary District were affected to a minimum degree and in fact,
save for the responsibility for dealing with Diphtheria protection in
those over 5 years of age and for issuing Insulin on sympathetic
terms to certain diabetics our work was in fact practically unaffected
by the coming into force of the Act.
A resume of the negotiations concerning area administration
would serve no useful purpose-suffice to say that this district now