[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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    West Hunslet ward the decrease in consumption had been more considerable, 32 per cent., and there had been a decrease in the diarrhoea death-rate of 23 per cent., while the city increased its rate 20 per cent. Judging by these two diseases therefore, the Holbeck registration district may be said to be in a more favourable position as to both its intercepts at the end of the decade than at the beginning. In Hunslet the phthisis death-rate had decreased in the remaining portion of West Hunslet and in the portion belonging to the South ward, but in East Hunslet the rate had increased. The diarrhoea rate had also increased 55 per cent., the average increase of the town having been 20. In the South ward portion of the district, the diarrhoea increase was also double that of the town, whilst in the West Hunslet portion of the district the rate had varied very little. In the South-east registration district, which it will be remembered had the highest death-rate from all causes of any district in the borough, the phthisis death-rate had increased in the small portion of the South and Central wards surround¬ ing the river, and which we have bracketted together, whilst the diarrhoea death-rate in this bracketted portion had decreased 27 per cent., notwithstanding the increase in the city as a whole. The East ward portion of the district, by far the most populous, was stationary as to consumption, but had increased its diarrhoea rate with an increment double that of the city. In Osmonclthorpe the rates on the small numbers are misleading. There were two deaths from consumption in the five earlier, two also in the five later years, one from diarrhoea in the earlier, two in the later years. Grouping, however, the Harehills portion of the North-east ward with the township of Osmondthorpe the phthisis mortality had increased 70, and the diarrhoea mortality 367 per cent. As both rates, even at their worst, were below that of the town, it is perhaps not necessary to dwell upon them.