[Report 1916] / Medical Officer of Health, Salford County Borough.
- Salford (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1916
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1916] / Medical Officer of Health, Salford County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![were 51 notifications, and fewest in December, wher there were 14 notifications. Three hundred and forty eight cases, or 78-7 per cent of the total, were remove* to Lady well Sanatorium. Diphtheria. • Two hundred and four cases of diphtheria were notine* during 191(3, compared with 236 in 1915, and 308 th< average for the preceding five years. The attack rate ii therefore 9*5 per 10,000 of the population, as compare* with 10-7 for the preceding year. There were 17 death! registered from diphtheria, giving a death rate of 8-3 pe: cent of those attacked, compared with a death rate o 12-3 per cent in 1915, an average for the preceding iiv* years of 11*8 per cent, and also a death rate of 0-8 pe: 10,000 of the population. The cases were spread over the whole year, tin number ranging from 32 in January to 10 in Decembe] With regard to age, 163 cases, or 80 per cent,were childrei under 15 years of age, and 73 cases, or 36 per cent were children under five years of age, the mortalit amongst the latter class being very heavy, the deatl reaching the large proportion of 17 per cent of the cases During the year 87 specimens were forwarded to kTofess* Delepine for bacteriological examination. Comparing Salford with England and Wales, the 1 Great Towns, and London, the mortality rates per 10,Of living were as follows :— England and Wales. 14 96 Great Towns. 1 '5 London . L4 Salford. O'8](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30067224_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
