[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough.

  • Pontefract (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    u 261 deaths were registered during the year* 19 less than in the previous year. This figure gives a crude death rate of 12.4, 1.0 less than in 1940. The rate for England and Wales is 12.9* Of the 261 deaths occurring, 33 were in children under 1; year of age, an increase of 4. Female deaths numbered 109, H less than were recorded last year5 whilst male deaths numbered 152, a decrease of 8. Heart disease, gives the highest death rate, 56 deaths having been registered as due to this cause, 5 less than last year. Cancer was responsible for 46 deaths, 14 more than in 1940, whilst intra¬ cranial vascular lesions accounted for 30 deaths, 11 less than in the previous year. Diseases of the respiratory system accounted for 42 deaths, the same figure as for last year; whilst diseases of the digestive system were responsible for 4 deaths, a decrease of 11. i. . • # ' % Infective diseases were given as cause of death in 30 cases, an increase of 1. ' ■- ■ Infant Mortality., . . 1. <-.• \•••. •• :>-jn rt The number of deaths of infants, under one year of age was 33? 4 more than in 1940;^ this yields an infant mortality rate of 79 £er 1,000 births, as> compared With 74 in the previous year. The high > figure for pneumonia in 194-0 continued during the-present year, and is again responsible for the fairly high infant mortality rate; the 9 deaths from pneumonia represent a rate., of 22 per thousand live r births, which constitutes 28 per cent of the total rate of 79* It will be recollected that during the past two winters sever climatic conditions have been experienced; these-coincide with the high fatality rate for pneumonia. Only 10 infant deaths occurred in this disease during the triennial period 1937 - 9, compared with 19 in the past two years. The average infant mortality rate for the period 1938 ~ 194-1 is 65. The 1941 rate for England and Wales is 59* The following table gives the causes of infant deaths and age groups. Table II. f ■ Causes of death • --c Age groups - AH ages Under 1 vear ■ Under 1 week ’ h • •• • 1 and under 2 weeks 2 and under 3 weeks „ . 'u. *.*' 03 ,G -P G 0 a VO • G 0) § V TO .«• -G cd m 03 -G -P G S: CTs - G CD § TO G cd vO 03 rG •P G . § c\j , 4-j-1—1 G CD TO G 3 TO g ON Males Females ■. r ; . ’* 03 rH G -P O Eh -03, ‘ cd ' CD £ e- G CD § | m Xi -p r,G' § m G (D to s no G •-Co 1—1 Whooping Cough 1 1 0 1 Tuberculous meningitis • • 1 0 1 1 Congenital syphilis 1 1 0 1 Convulsions 1 1 0 1 Bronchitis 1 0 1 1 Pneumonia 1 4 2 2 3 6 9 Congenital malformation 1 1 1 1 2 A Congenital debility 1 2 1 2 2 4 Prematurity 6 3 1 1 7 4 r\ 11 I Injury at birth 1 1 0 1 n Icterus Neonatorum 1 l 0 1 18 ]