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Southall 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southall]
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The Council has an arrangement with the London County Council by
which cases of ophthalmia neonatorum are treated at St. Margaret's Hospital,
Hampstead, N.W. In some cases the mothers are admitted with the child in
order that breast feeding may be continued.
Table No. 46.
| Cases notified | 1 |
| Cases treated at home | _ |
| Cases treated in hospital | 1 |
| Vision unimpaired | 1 |
| Vision impaired | _ |
| Total blindness | _ |
| Deaths | _ |
Acute Poliomyelitis.
In the Annual Report for 1936 there was a special paragraph describing
an outbreak of 12 cases of poliomyelitis. Only one case of this disease has
occurred during the year, but it was thought desirable to follow up those cases
previously reported. Each child has been visited and the following summary
indicates the progress they have made.
Two are perfectly well; four continue to exhibit some paralysis, but are
improving; four are paralysed to various degrees, and are stationary; one is
dead and one cannot be traced.
The following table shows the various infectious diseases (other than
tuberculosis) notified during the year and also their age incidence:—
Table No. 47.
Notifiable Diseases during the year (other than Tuberculosis).
| Diseases | Ages | Total cases notified | Cases admitted to hospital | Deaths | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and over | ||||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet fever | - | 4 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 64 | 24 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 2 | - | 141 | 132 | - |
| Diphtheria | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 60 | 17 | 11 | 10 | - | 3 | - | 119 | 119 | 6 |
| Enteric fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1* | - |
| Puerperal fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | 10 | 9* | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | |||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 9* | - |
| Pneumonia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 61 | 33* | 25 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1* | - |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Cerebro-spinal fever | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1* | - |
| Anterior poliomyelitis | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | ||
| * To London hospitals or institutions outside the district. | |||||||||||||||