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Public
Health
(Prevention
of Tuberculosis)
Regulations,
1925.
These regulations provide that persons suffering from Tuberculosis of the
Respiratory tract shall not be employed in the handling of milk or milk
receptacles.
Power is given to the Council to cause such persons to discontinue their
employment. Two cases were investigated but it was not found necessary to
take action under the regulations during the year.
VII.- STATISTICS PROVIDED BY THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL.
Memo. 2, 1932, M.O.H. Met. B. C.B.
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
These statistics are forwarded for the information of the Medical Officer
of Health in connection with paragraph 6 and Appendix II of Circular 1206
dated the 14th July, 1931, addressed to Medical Officers of Health from the
Ministry of Health.
Met. B. Mem. SD/EP.
(1) Stepney Estimate of Population, Mid-year 1931, 226,500.
(For the calculation of death rates based on the figures of civilian
deaths furnished from this Office, this population should be reduced by
the exclusion of non-civilians, estimated at 700, to a net figure 225,800).
(2) Numbers of cases of infectious diseases notified in Stepney during
the 52 weeks ended 2nd January, 1932.
Smallpox 352 Puerperal Fever 8
Scarlet Fever 1,260 Puerperal Pyrexia 36
Diphtheria 661 Erysipelas 239
Enteric Fever 5
The case rates of these diseases for England and Wales per 1,000 civilian
population are respectively as follows:— Smallpox 0.14, Scarlet Fever 2.05,
Diphtheria 1.27, Enteric Fever 0.06, Puerperal Fever 0.06, Puerperal Pyrexia
014, Erysipelas 0.38.
1 he case rates for Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia are better
expressed in relation to the births registered rather than to the population.
When calculated on this basis the rates are:—
Puerperal Fever 3.55 and Puerperal Pyrexia 8.71 per 1,000 total births
(i.e. live and stillbirths) registered during the year.