[Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Alnwick U.D.C.
- Alnwick (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Alnwick U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The number of deaths of non-residents registered in the district is 11, thus reducing the number 105 to 94. We must, however, add to the latter number, 10 deaths of residents which have occurred out of the district, giving a corrected total of 104 deaths of persons belonging to the Urban area. This reduces our annual death rate to 14.8. In the foregoing I take the population at 7,000. TABLE A. of the district, as last year, Estimated Population 7000 Rate Births—Males 87, Females 78 165 Deaths—all causes 105 ,, Phthisis 2 ,, Respiratory Diseases 7 ,, *Zymotic 6 Infectious Notifications 11 ^Excluding one death returned as Enteritis, rate is reduced to .71. per thousand. 23.5 15 .28 1 .85 1.57 the Zymotic TABLE B. Detailed List of Deaths. Measles 3 Whooping Cough 2 Phthisis Pulmonalis 2 Tuberculous Meningitis 3 Other Tuberculous Diseases 2 Cancer 13 Heart Disease 10 Bronchitis 4 Pneumonia 2 Other defii Other Respiratory Diseases 1 Diarrhoea and Enteritis 1 Appendicitis 1 Cirrhosis of Liver 1 Nephritis 1 Accidents of Parturition 1 Congenita] Debility, etc .8 Violent Deaths 6 Suicide 1 diseases, 39. In commenting on the above Tables, let us first consider the deaths due to Zymotic disease. These are more numerous than in the past 3 years, and the contributory causes are Whooping Cough in the spring, which was responsible for 2 deaths, and Measles, which broke out in July and became epidemic. There was in the beginning of September still a number of cases, and I suggested that the schools which at the time were in vacation should remain closed for an extra week when the outbreak had to a great extent died down. Soon after the reopening, there was a recrudescence which developed so that it again became a question as to whether the schools should not be closed for a further period.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28801040_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
