[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council.
- Cambridgeshire (England). County Council.
- Date:
- 1920
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridgeshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![longer administered l)y that Authority, it is of special import- ance that the statutory requirement to notify should be fully complied with by medical })ractitiouers. f-Jy this means the Tuberculosis Officer will have early knowledge of cases requiring sanatorium treatment, })rovision for which is made by the County Council for both insured and uninsured. 'I'he number of deaths registered from this cause was 88, against 95 in 1919. The decrease in mortality occurred in the rural area. In Cambridge Borough there were 45 deaths, compared with 36 in 1919, the number of deaths registered in the rural area being 43, compared with 59 in the previous year. The mortality rates per 1,000 living were :—Administrative County 0.67 (0.75 in 1919), Cambridge Borough 0.74 (0.62 in 1919), and Rural Districts 0.60 (0.8b in 1919) Comparison of the number of deaths (95) during the year with the average of 112 for the five years 1910-14, and of 135 for the four War years ending 1918, shows that the downward trend of mortality from this disease which was interrupted by the Whar has now been resumed Tiihercitlosis of Other Orgam—There were 58 uotilica- tions received, compared with (>8 in 1919, yielding a notiheation rate of 0.44 per 1,000. .^fter deducting one duplicate notiheation, the number of notiheations received for the first time was 57, yielding a notiheation rate of 0.43 ])er 1,000 of the pojnilation. The deaths numbered 19 compared with 28 in 1919. Of these, 7 occurred in Cambridge and 12 in the Rural Distiicts. The mortality rates per 1,000 living were as follows:—Administrative County 0.13 (0.22 in 1919), (Cambridge o.ii (0.31 in 1919), and Rural Districts 0.16 (0.14 in 1919). Pnenmoma.—fJeaths recorded as due to this cause numbered 57, compared with 64 in 1919, of which 24 belong to Cambridge and 33 to the Rural Districts. The moiTality](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29089323_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
