[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley R.D.C.

  • Chorley (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Years Small Fox. Di})hthcria. Mem- branous Croiqv Scarlet Fever. Erysipelas. Typlioid Fever. Otlier Fevers. Fuer- ]ieral Fever. To dlls. 1896 • • 6 3 67 23 31 2 1 133 1 1895 • • 28 o O 101 30 25 2 2 191 1894 • • 31 o O 51 26 o o O O 1 . . 145 1893 6 2 o O 67 13 o o o J 0 2 130 Cases of Zymotic Diseases have been reported from every T(j\vnship iu your District during 1896, but there have been considerably fewer notifications than in 1895. This decrease has been most marked in Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever; only six (6) cases of tiio former disease having been notified in 1896 instead of twenty-eight (28) in 1895, and sixty-seven (67) instances of Scarlet Fever in 1896 against one hundred and one ^01) in 1895. AVhittle-lo-Woods again yielded tlie greatest number of Zymotic Cases—thirty-seven (37), Ooppull twenty-nine (29), and Clayton-le-A¥oods and Heath Charnock each ten (10). I liavc arranged in Table II the notifications of each Zymotic Disease under the several Town- ships, and compared the total number of cases reported from each Township in 1896 with tlie number notified in 1895. TABLE U. Townships. Diphtheria. Croup. Scarlet Fever. Erysipelas. Typhoid Fever. Other F evers Fuer- peral Fever. Totals in 1896. Totals in 1895. CTiariiock Ivichard.. 1 1 J Cop pull 17 () 5 1 29 27 j Dux bury . . 1 1 1 1 4 2 Ileapey 1 2 2 5 4 1 Welch AVhittle . . 1 1 f 1 Brindle 1 2 4 i 16 1 TIoghton . . 1 1 5 1 AVheeltoii . . o O 1 1 5 10 1 Bretherton , . . 1 1 • « 2 ;j I Eccleston . . 2 1 o O 2 1 TIeskin 3 1 4 1 1 Alawdesley o O 1 4 32 1 Ulnes AYalton 1 • • 1 2 I Clayton-le- Woods .. 2 5 1 2 10 7 1 Cuerden 4 • , 1 5 o O Euxtoii 1 • • 1 6 AVhittle-le-AYoods.. 2 1 20 8 5 1 3 7 47 Anderton . . 1 1 o f> Anglezarke , • • . 1 1 Heath Cliariiock . . »> O 3 *> O 1 10 13 Fivington . . • • • • 1 • • 1 6 o O
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