[Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • East Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, East Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Chair man and MeniTcrs of the Pablic Health and llousiny (Joinniitfce. My IjOIU), JiAJ)IE,S, AND (jP^NTLEAlEN, I liave the honour to sul)init to von ilie eleventh t Annual Iteport on the Health and Sanitary Adniinisti'a- tion of the (Miintv for the year llhJT. The Keport tor the year under review is an Ordinary l{e})ort. The next Survey I\e])ort will he that tor the 3^ear lO-lO. ITie hirth-.i‘ate for the year is Ih'l) per 1,000 of tlie population, the same as for 19^0. Tin’s is the lowest fipaii-e recorded since 1917. The death-rate is 12‘9, compared with 12’0 in the previous year. The infantile mortality-rate is oT’S per 1,000 registered births, whicdi compares favourably with ()0'o for 1920. An epidemi(5 of acute poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) occurred (hiring the latter half of tlie yeai‘, and there was a marked jirevalence of diphtlieria in the llorough of lleverlev. Five cases of small-pox were notified in tlie Conntv. €/ ^Maternity and (diild Welfare work has made further progress by the opening of another Infant AWlfare Centre at Cottingham. A voluntary centre under the control of the Local Xnrsing Association has also commenced work in Sutton-on-Hiill. The s(dieme for the sujijily of water in bulk from Hull to the Hornsea Frban District has now been completed, and the water laid on. ]\Iy thanks are dne to the District ^Medical Dfficers of Health for their co-operation, and to the staff who have worked loyally with me during the year. I have the honour to be, Your obedient Servant, County Hall, Beverley, June, 1928. IL L. THOHXLEY.