Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales.
- New South Wales. Department of Public Health
- Date:
- [1926]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![]01 3.—Broken Hill. The position of Medical Officer of Health at Broken Hill has been vacant since 31st December, 1925. Investigational visits in connection with general sanitation and maternal and infant welfare work were made by Dr. Morris and other officers of the department during 1926. Dr. Morris recommended :—• 1. That a sanitary inspector of the Department should be sent to Broken Hill, where he should be stationed for several months, and that every effort to bring about an improvement in sanitation should be made by him, as far as possible in co-operation with the local authority, but, if necessary, independently of it. 2. That if such an inspector should be stationed at Broken Hill, special nurses should be detailed to assist him in combating gastro-intestinal infections during late summer and autumn. 3. That laboratory facilities under departmental control should be provided, and that investigations concerning gastro-intestinal infections should be carried out in addition to other work. 4. That a publicity and educational campaign should be instituted at the earliest possible inoment. Vital Statistics.—The Broken Hill Council has supplied the following figures for 1926 : The death rate, birth rate and infantile mortality rate are given below with figures for 1925 opposite :— Deaths, males ,, females Births, boys „ girls... 1926. 1925. 193 167\ 111 116/ 377 367 \ 367 321 / Death rate per 1,000 of population .. Birth rate per 1,000 of population.... 1926. 10-8 26-5 1925. 10-1 24-5 Infantile Mortality Rate.—Deaths of infants under 1 year per 1,000 registered births : 1926. 1925. 1926. 1925. 55 48 giving a rate of'— 73 69 Of the 55 deaths (under 1 year) in 1926, 6 died of pulmonary disease, 14 of intestinal diseases, and 20 were premature births. The other 15 died from various causes. The death rates and infantile mortality rates for the years from 1918 to 1924 are given below :•— 1918. 1919. Death rate . 15-50 21-14 Infantile mortality rate ... 99-16 146-65 1920. 1921. 1922. 1923. 1924. 13-69 13-46 14-70 11-26 17-09 111-79 122-85 97-00 91-68 146-00 Notifiable Infectious Diseases.—The following notifications were received from Broken Hill during 1926 Typhoid Fever. Scarlet Fever. Diphtheria. Cerebro-spindl Fever. Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. Cases. Deaths. Cases; Deaths.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31485170_0142.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
