[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ro3 do not materially affect what has been just said. Together the cases of the group were four times as many in 1898 as in 1897, and the deaths three times. In 1899 the cases more than doubled, whilst the deaths increased a third. Cases of continued fever did not vary very much, they were 481, 542, and 498 in the three years, whilst the deaths were 85, 93, and 70. In 1895 and 1896 the cases had been 443 and 482, and the deaths 86 and 87. The tendency had been to a slight increase towards 1898, since which time there has been a slight fall. The fall in the deaths is more conspicuous than the fall in the cases, and it is probable that in all notifiable diseases there is an increasing tendency to notify slight cases. It is better that these cases should be notified, but it is well to remember that the increase in the numbers notified does not necessarily imply an increase of disease. PART ill.—HEALTH OF DISTRICTS. So much has been said under the head of phthisis and diarrhoea about the mortality in intercepts in the first and second five years of the decade, and about the case-rates last year in these intercepts from scarlet fever, diphtheria, and typhoid, ' and the intercept death-rates from diarrhoea, that I do not propose to dwell largely upon the health of districts. It may be convenient, however, to remind you how the populations dealt with, both for intercepts, wards, and registration districts, have been obtained. Population.—Last year a full description was given of how the populations for that year were obtained. I hoped to have been able to dispense with any alteration of plan, but found that in some of the districts, which were actually decreas¬ ing, an apparent increase of population would have been claimed in 1899 if the same practice had been pursued, and thought it desirable, therefore, to modify the method. Accordingly, taking