[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council.
- Durham County Council
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![in as soon after the end of the year as possible, for with one or two exceptions they were, although mostly printed, received by me before the middle of March. The earlier a report of this kind is published the more valuable it] undoubtedly is, and I have to thank the Medical Officers of Health for completing their reports w ith so little delay, and thereby enabling me to publish this summary within a reasonable time. The improvement in the reports for the year 1892 as compared with previous years was undoubtedly maintained in those of last year. Many of the reports are prepared with great care and contain much valuable information obtained as the result of close observation, but on the other hand, a few of the reports are by no means detailed enough, and do not refer to matters of sanitary importance in the districts with which they deal. The chief defect in the reports as a whole, and one which causes considerable trouble in summarizing, is the want of uniformity in the calculation and arrange- ment of the vital statistics. In some of-the reports the chief vital statistics are set forth separately at the commencement, and it would be a great improvement and more easy of reference if this example were generally followed. In the calculation of the zymotic death-rate there is also a great want of uniformity, for in some reports deaths from Erysipelas and Puerperal P'ever are included in that rate, though they are not so included in the Registrar General’s returns, while on the other hand deaths from Diarrhoea are in some reports excluded, though they should undoubtedly be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2917286x_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
