[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough.
- Bournemouth (England). County Borough Council. nb2004301338.
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The total deaths from DiarrhoBa in the County Borough still continue to remain at a very low figure. In no way can it be said that this complaint causes any appreciable increase in the death rate. This is in marked contrast to many other of the large towns in the United Kingdom and perhaps indicates that parents are more careful in the dieting and bringing up of their infants in Bournemouth than in some other places. In respect to the total number of deaths from Phthisis there has been a slight increase, these deaths mainly occur in the public institutions amongst the visitor class, many of whom come here in a moribund and hopeless condition. It seems to me that medical men in various parts of the country are wrong in thinking that the climate of Bournemouth is so beneficial as to he likely to help these poor sufferers who are so obviously in the last stage of the disease that any climatic condi- tions, however favourable, could or would be beneficial to them, is misleading. They are, on arrival, so obviously in a moribund condition and should never have come. Perhaps more care might be exercised by our own pro- fession in refusing to take the responsibility of these poor sufferers, or to hold out any delusive hopes of benefit being obtained. That the climate and advantages of Bournemouth have been proved over many years to be so beneficial to many in the earlier stages of this complaint cannot be denied. In many the disease has become arrested and many have overcome the early threatenings of this complaint, and which cases, if left in unfavourable environments, the disease soon gains a headway. I hope this fact will become more recognised year by year and duly acted on, and thus save us from having to deal with these cases which are so hopeless. The deaths recorded as from Cancer have increased as compared with last year. On analysing the death records of this com])laint, I am again impressed with the fact that some portion of the alimentary canal seems to be that portion of the human body which this fell disease seems to l)e most prone to effect. Of the total number of 82 deaths recorded, in no less than 54 of them the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28942814_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
