[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Cannock U.D.C.

  • Cannock (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Cannock U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    botwcon one and five, one between live and fifteen, and one over sixty-five) ears of age, and the greater proportion oeenrred in the later sarnnier and autninn months. Rhmiir.nlic Fover. Four deatlis liave occurred from Rheumatic Fever, all in the distriet and all overlive years of age ; against three from this cause in the previous year. Thirteen deaths are referred to Phthisis all in the district and over five years of age, a ratio at per thousand of population of 019; against eighteen, a ratio of So per thousand in tfie pieeeding year. Of these five were males;—the respective ages 59, 34, 16, 39 and 18 years, tlie callings, miner, labourer, miner’, butcher, and miner, and eight t'emales—four married and four single, the ages 43, 31, 19, *25, *29, 19, 45 and 31, the localities in the order in which named, in the males :—Littleworth, bt. John s road, Cannock, Green Idc'ath, Hednesford and Hednesford ; in the females, Hednesford, Bridgtown, Hednesford, Hed- nesford, Bridgtown, Hawnsley, Bridgtown and Five Ways. lironohitifl, riieumouia, nnd Pleurisy. From Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy, there have been thirty-two deaths under and forty-three over five years of age in the district, and one under and three above five in the Workhouse, a total of .seventy-nine, with a ratio of 3'76 jier thou'-and of population ; against a total of eighty nine with a ratio of 4'23 per thonsand in 189*2. The diminished mortality from this class of diseases in that year over that of its preceding one, 1801, when the deaths totalled 146, Avith a ratio of 7'08 per thousand, was attributed by me to the almost entire absence of an epid- emic of ]\leasles during 1802, athereas the district has been Visited with an exceptionally heavy moi’tality from this cause during the year to which this report refers. The following Table shews the mortality from this class of diseases for the ten years 1884 to 1803.