[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough.

  • Peterborough (England). County Council.
Date:
1917
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Credit: [Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    septicaemia and the other fron meningitis, due to a mastoid abscess. Another case died from septicaemia at hone. There wore two return casos, tho sopticaonia case being one of these. Generally, the disease was mild. ..... t • DIPHTIIDR11IA. 10 of the HO oases fron tho City were removed to the Isolation Hospital and two died. One of the twenty cases was one of Vincent’s Angina and not true diphtheria. One case occurred in the Peterborough Rural District which unfortunately died. Dr Collins rLanarks that the two cases notified as enteric fever were bdth negative. One was probably pneumonia and the other cerebro-spinal fever, but notification of the latter did not reacfe tho Public Health Department until after the death of the uatient. ITo autor3^ - j. O was allowed. One resident died away from Peterborough of this disease. It is pleasing#to record tha almost total absence of enteric fover throu.ghout the County, This disease is rapidly bocomning extinct. C SRD3R0-OPI IT Au FRY HP. There were three notifications of cerebro- spinal fever, two from the City and one from tho Rural District of Peterborough. The latter occurred in a soldier who was removed to Cambridge together with the contacts. This patient recovered. One of the two cases occurring in the City died but the other recovered. Another case was not notified during life but was certified to have Mod of this disease. It 'was almost certainly tuberculous meningitis. A draughtsman who worked in Peterborough but lived in London died ir the Metropolis. Two contacts to this patient were found to be harbouring the germ and did so for many weeks. The case of ophthalmia neonatorum was fortunately mild in type. I30BATI0K HOSPITALS. During tho ^oar the small-pox Hospital was usod for the isolation V . ' • / of the throe cases of cerebro-spinal fever. The Staff of the Hospital has been entirely changed. The laundry has again been utilized and no garments are now sent out. 18 oaoea of dinhiherla, 64 of scarlet fever, 8 of enteric (one of these being from outside the County), and one case of septicaemia, 85 in all, ^ere trea-tod at the Isolation Hospital. Dr Collins remarks (22?