[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Bridlington (Union) R.D.C.

  • Bridlington (England). Rural District Council. nb2013014631.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Bridlington (Union) R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but there the supply was not so completely exhausted as in the preceding instance. This defective water supply I have before brought to your notice and would press upon you the early necessity of dealing with it in a comprehensive and effectual manner. We have had no case of Cholera in our District and for this must be supremely thankful—at the same time continue on the watch, and be in a state of preparedness, for its appearing should there be any recrudescence of the disease in the current year. There are several parts of England where Cholera germs were deposited in 1893 and it only depends upon the sanitary condition of those places, more particularly as regards drainage and water supply, whether these germs shall remain dormant or awaken to renewed activity during the coming spring and summer. In common with the Country generally we experienced a recurrance of Influenza, very much mitigated certainly—but still Influenza,—and I note four deaths returned as due to this cause,—two in the first quarter, one in the second and one in the fourth,—so that the disease was continuously with us throughout the year. There were six cases of Small Pox in the District during the year—five occurring in the persons of tramps and wayfarers—and one which ended fatally from old standing disease of Urinary Bladder in an agricultural labourer resident here, all of whom with one exception were isolated in the Union Infirmary isolation wards, whilst the exception succeeded in making his way to Scarbro’. I am glad to be able to report a marked lessening of mortality—the corrected total of deaths for 1893 being 103, as compared with 106 in 1892 and 150 in 1891. The general death-rate of the District was very low, being 12-7 per 1000 living and 6*5 below that of England and Wales; the death-rate from zymotic diseases was equally satisfactory, reaching only 0-98—whilst the deaths of infants under one year of age was in proportion of lll’l deaths to each thousand live births, the zymotic .and infantile death-rates of England and Wales being 2-47 and 159‘0 respectively. These figures taken as a whole are highly satisfactory, and although liable to discount when we investigate the vital statistics of separate localities, show that generally the conditions of life and natural enviroument in our District are conductive to healthy life and prolonged existence. I append a table of populations as enumerated at the census in 1881 and 1891 together with the numbers of deaths from general and zymotic disease occurring in each parish for the past twelve months. The Eural District includes 35 named Parishes, and extends roughly^ speaking some 22 miles by 13 miles at the broadest part; it has an area of 60,145 acres or more than 100 square miles. Several parts are 8 or 9 miles from a railway station, making the labour and time expended in journeys of investigation and inspection considerable, and should not^ be lost sight of in computing the value of the work done. The population estimated to the middle of 1893 is 8,084, divided amongst the three Eegistration Sub-districts of Eural part of Bridlington, Hunmanby nnu Skipsea as follows:—Bridlington 2,651, Hunmanby 3,666, and Skipsea 1,767.
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