Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health 1910 / Wimbledon Borough Council.

  • Wimbledon (London, England). Borough Council.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health 1910 / Wimbledon Borough Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Medical Officer of Health FOR THE Year ended 31st December, 1910 To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Wimbledon. Gentlemen,— As required by the General Orders of the Local Govern¬ ment Board of March 23rd, 1891, I beg to present my first complete Annual Report for the year 1910. The statistics for the year show an extremely satisfactory state of affairs, the death-rate for the district being the lowest on record. The infantile mortality is also extremely satisfactory, but again we must consider the influence of the cool summer and heavy rainfall. Another fact to be noticed is the continuance of the steadv diminution of the birth-rate. The incidence of the notifiable zymotic diseases has been low, and the figure for Diphtheria would have been lower still in all probability had there not been a much more extensive practice of swabbing suspicious throats, by which means a certain number of cases which would not have been diagnosed as Diphtheria are notified, and help to swell the numbers, so that one may regard the Diphtheria incidence with great satisfaction. As will be alluded to in other places in the report, it seems to me that the time has come when we should recon-
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