[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County.

  • Newcastle upon Tyne (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    course of erection by the Corporation. Since the war the Municipality has built 5,496 houses, and private enterprise 2,980. _L ' In 1929 the death rates were 19*2 in St. Andrew’s, 18*0 in All Saints’, and 16-1 in St. John’s Wards, where congestion is great, as compared with 9-7 in Heaton, 10*5 in Dene, and 12*2 in Jesmond Wards. As indicating the influence of overcrowding upon the liability to tuber¬ culosis the attack rate per thousand population of pul¬ monary tuberculosis was 2*99 in All Saint s Ward, as against 0-82 in Dene. Approximately 84 per cent, of the population live in one and two-roomed houses, yet over 89 per cent, of the deaths from consumption were in this class of dwelling. In All Saints’ W ard the deaths of babies under one year amounted to 140 per 1,000 births, whereas in Jesmond the rate was only 37. Over a period of 22 years the deaths of babies in one-, two- and three- t/ roomed houses have been 12/, 115 and 96 respectively. Procedure in dealing with insanitary areas is still exceedingly slow. The Insanitary Property Sub-Com¬ mittee is now almost at a standstill, and action in regard to the Elswick East Terrace and the St. Peter’s areas has been temporarily suspended pending the promised legislation to facilitate proceedings by Local Authorities. Meanwhile, the original statement of the areas in the City that should be scheduled as unhealthy has been revised and supplemented by the addition of nine others, so that the properties standing to be dealt with as soon as the Committee can get at them number 1,166 houses, com¬ prising 2,178 dwellings of 3,764 rooms inhabited by 8,720 individuals. These can all be classified in insanitary areas, but there are besides 143 individual houses con¬ taining 258 dwellings of 457 rooms occupied by 1,026 individuals which can be more appropriately dealt with