[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Bilston U.D.C.

  • Bilston (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Bilston U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( I Government Board existed, a few Boards of (niardians in the county g'ot their oblig'ations under this order to pay these tees. The Wolverhampton Board was one of tliese and it has not even yet altered the system—a system which is not in the interests ot the poor; is now, or should be, obsolete, and is inconsistent with progressive development. It may be interesting- to add that centuries ago the registration of Midwives was undertaken by the Church, chiefly because Mid- wives were sometimes called upon to baptize infants. The parish clergy schooled them as to their duties, and they were enjoined not to substitute the child of one woman for that of another. Zymotic Diseases. — Ninety-one deaths, all with one excep- tion, in children under 5 years of age, 36 being in infants under i year, were attributed to the se\ en principal zymotic diseases, equal to a rate of 3-6 per thousand, as compared with 55 in the previous year, 74 in 1907, and 91 in 1906. As previously stated no less than 46 of these were due to measles. The subjoined Table shows the number of deaths from each of these causes for the past year, and the previous 10 years, and gives the rates per 1,000 of the population. Deaths from | 1899 1900 1901 1902DJ03D>01 1905 1906 1907il908 1909 1 1 1 Scarlet Fever 1 4 9 f) 8 11 1 8 3 5 Small Pox ... Measles 3.6 2 20 6 14 1 18 27 f) 46 Whooping Cough ... 9 8 27 5 7 10 2 23 7 17 14 Knteric Fever lo 4 4 2 3 3 fj 1 3 Diphtheria and \ 2 MeinhraiiousGroup J 9 6 7 6 1 1 3 3 3 I)iai-rh(f;a ... 60 30 64 32 41 59 41 41 28 29 24 Totals 91 90 105 71 71 95 48 91 71 60 91 Rate per thousand... 3-8 3-6 4-3 2-9 2-7 3-9 1-9 3-7 3-02 2-4 3-6 Vaccination. —The returns of the Vaccination Officer are given tor lo years, 1S99-190S, and the first half of 1909 : — 189!)^ 1900 1 1901 1902^903 1904 1905 1 1 1 1906|l907 1908 Half Year to June JO 1909 births Registered ... it.ioj 892 878 ■ 939| 895 899 937 899 934 879 426 Succ’ssrilvVaccinatTl 829; 76!> 760 838- 801 816 825 784 814 703 332 Insusce]itil)le 111 7 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 Died Ihivaeeinated... 91 96 91 70' 77 56 91 91 92 87 25 Post])oned l| 1 7) 1 4 1 3 6 2 Removed fromDisti'ict 10 6 10 13 4 4 1 7 4 6 4 Certificates of Con-1 1 scientiousOhjectors j 8 6 14 10 12 11 12 15 15 74 at) Unaccounted for 6j 7 ■ 1 1 4 4 1 6 959 892 878 939 895 899 937 899 934 879 426