[Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tiicre was a slight reduction in the deatlis from cancer as compared with 1942 when the number was 1,183, the highest recorded, but the difference is not sufficient to indicate a downward tendency. This year cancer was responsible for 13-2 per cent, of the total civilian deaths in the Administrative County, as against 14-8 per cent, last year. In 1942, 95 only of the deaths occurred in persons under the age of 45 years, and there has been little change in that respect, for it will be seen from the preceding table that during the period now under review the corresponding number was 100. As demonstrated earlier in the Report, the last quarter century has seen a great improvement in the expectation of life, for whilst in 1920 48.6 per cent, of the deaths were of persons under 45 years of age, by 1943 the figure had gradually improved to 24-6 per cent. As remarked in previous Reports, this means of course, that there is an increase in the age group more susceptible to the development of cancer. VENEREAL DISEASES. Under the County Council scheme for the treatment of Venereal Diseases, agreements have been made with the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent; the Staffordshire General Infirmary, Stafford ; the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton ; the Guest Hospital, Dudley ; the Corbett Hospital, Amblecote ; and the Walsall Corporation for the establishment of special clinics. A special arrangement also exists for the treatment of County cases at the Birmfingham General Hospital, and there is an agreement with the Children’s Hospital, Ladywood Road, Birmingham. There is one whole-time Venereal Diseases Officer on the staff of the County Council who is responsible for the Clinics at Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent mentioned above. In addition, as a result of war-time staffing difficulties, by an arrangement between the County Council and the Stoke-on-Trent Corporation, he temporarily attends the Shelton Municipal Clinic. The only treatment centres situated in the Administrative County are those at the Corbett Hospital, Amblecote, and the Staffordshire General Infirmary, Stafford, but the County Council are responsible for the one at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirm¬ ary, Stoke-on-Trent. The arrangements which exist at Centres in the areas of neighbouring Authorities have already been men¬ tioned, and in a later table the attendances of County patients at the various hospitals are detailed. Again this year the increase in the incidence of these diseases, and the presence of service cases at the Treatment Centres, has not been sufficient to demand any extension of our pre-war facilities. As previously reported, at the instigation of the Ministry of Health a General Practitioner Service was established at Lichfield