[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Lincoln City.

  • Lincoln (England). City Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Lincoln City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ACUTE RHEUMATISM REGULATIONS, 1947 These Regulations, relating to the notification of acute rheumatism in persons under the age of 16 years resident in the administrative County of Lincoln (parts of Lindsey), and the County Boroughs of Bristol, Grimsby, Lincoln and Sheffield, came into operation on 1st October, 1947. During 1949, two cases (males) were notified in the City and both attended the Joint Heart and Rheumatism Clinic held monthly at 30, Lindum Road, Lincoln. The clinical classification of these cases is as follows :— Male Female Total 1. Rheumatic Pains and/or Arthritis without heart disease 2 2 2. Rheumatic Heart Disease (Active) (a) with polyarthritis — — — (b) with chorea _ • _ — 3. Rheumatic Heart Disease (Quiescent) — — — 4. Rheumatic Chorea (Alone) — — — Total .. 2 2 TUBERCULOSIS The number of primary notifications received during the year was 84 (68 pulmonary and 16 non-pulmonary) as compared with 85 (71 pulmonary and 14 non-pulmonary) in the previous year. The number of primary notifications received during the last five years was :— 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Pulmonary 64 59 106 71 68 Non-Pulmonary . . 23 13 13 14 16 87 72 119 85 84 The number of deaths from tuberculosis during the last five years was :— 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Pulmonary 31 39 45 30 35 Non-Pulmonary .. 9 3 5 5 4 40 42 50 35 39 As from 5th July, 1948, the work of the Tuberculosis Clinics passed to the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board and in August, 1949, the Clinics which had previously been held at the City Health Department were transferred to the Central Lincolnshire Chest Unit, Mint Lane, Lincoln. During the year 182 persons were examined on account of their having been in contact with a tuberculous patient.