[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough.

  • Leicester (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i The illegitimate infant death-rates during the past tew years have been as follows:— No. of illegitimate' Death rate per 1000 Year. deaths. illegitimate births. 1910 49 207 1911 4b 191 1912 48 180 1913 49 205 ZYMOTIC MORTALITY. re were 203 deaths from the seven principal zyim viz. :— Smallpox ... ... Nil Measles 97 Scarlet Fever . ... 5 Diphtheria 19 Whooping Cough 72 Enteric Fever b Diarrlura .. 04 Total ... 2b3 I In Zt/mvl i <■ I In 11 h - r<t 11 was 113 as compared with 'lo m the previous year. The year was rather a bad one as regards measles and whooping cough. CANCER. The deaths from cancer and other forms of malignant disease during 1 nI-f numbered 2b7. compared with 252 in 1913, this being, I regret to say, the highest figure hitherto recorded. Of the total, 121 were in males and 140 in females. The cancer rate was ] 10 per 100,000. As was staled in my last report, there has been a serious increase in cancer mortality throughout the whole country, and Leicester, unfortunately, is no exception. The increase set in about 27 years ago, but lias been most noticeable during the past 13 years. The diagram appended (No. 1) illustrates this increase graphically.