[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Cumberland County Council.

  • Cumberland (England). County Council.
Date:
1942
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    death. This, of ccjiirse, represents more than •’»0% .of the !()() reeorded deaths, and it means that rather more than half of these cases did not come to notice at a state when treatment might have offered some prospect of cure. This (jiiestion has been discussed ,at length in previous reports, and I am here merely stating the facts. It should be mentioaed that included in these 8(5 cases are 22 cases of tubercular meningitis, in which, owing to the rapidity of the disease, notilication after death is almost inevitably the rule rather than the exception. Deaths from tuberculosis were distributed among the Sanitary Districts as under :— rRBAN Districts. I’uhnuiuivv i\'on-Pifliiioii(ny I Dial. XV’c'rkiugton 2n 10 3(S Whitehaven )3 7 22 Marvport 15 5 IS Penrith . 5 1 (i Keswiclv • 3 — 3 Cockennoutli . . 2 — 2 Aggregate of Urban l.)istricts H4 23 S7 Rur.m. Districts. Pnliiioiian'. Noii-Piihiioiiiirv Total. I'.nnerilale 27 14 41 Jtorder . . 12 1 13 Wigton . . 4 4 8 Milloin . . 4 2 « Cockennoulh . . 3 3 (•) Penritli . . • . 1 2 3 Alston 2 — D Aggregate of Kural Disti'icts. 53 2(-i 79 'I'otal for tlie Administrati\e Counts' 117 49 1 Hi 'I'he rates iier thousand of the iiopulation are omitte.d for the usuid reason, but it ma\’’ be noted that the highest death-rates so far as Lirban Districts ire concerned are shown in Whitehaven and W'oi kington Boroughs and ]\ lar\port Ihiian District, and so far IS the Kura I I >istricts are concerned in the hnnerdale Kural I )istrict. Cfver a number of \ears the deaths friini pulmonary tuberculosis in the Eunerdale Rural District ha\e represented approximately one half of /