[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council.

  • Durham County Council
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF DURHAM. To the Chairman and Members of the Health Committee. Gentlemen, In presenting my Seventeenth Annual Keport I much regret the lateness of its issue, but the additional duties involved in the organization of the work of School Medical Inspection has been such a strain on my Department that it was impossible to complete the report at an earlier date. In many respects the county vital statistics were satisfactory, the birth-rate remaining high and the total zymotic deaths showing a satisfactory decline, while the infant mortality-rate was the lowest ever recorded. Unfortunately, the inclement weather during the first and fourth quarters caused a high mortality among the old and feeble from acute lung diseases, otherwise the total death-rate would have been considerably lower. The population of the county is now undoubtedly under- estimated and consequently the vital statistics are really more favourable than would appear from this report. My thanks are due to the District Sanitary Officials for the valuable assistance they have invariably rendered me in the dis- charge of my duties. I am, Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, February, 1909. T. EUSTACE HILL.
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