[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Cannock U.D.C.

  • Cannock (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Cannock U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tt is vei-y satisfactory to know that your '^I’echiiical InstiuctioTi Committee instituted free health lectures in tlie district last year. These lectures were ,<riven by .Miss Whalley (Health annd Nur.sin^ Leeturei' to the Stafford- shire County Council), and they embraced instruction on— (1) flow to make the home healthy : (2) How to feed and clothe the family ; (3) Instructions to mothei s as to feedinjr and clothin<>: of infants, with cautions as iceai-ds soothin<r syrups and liints for nnrsin<r iid’cetions and other diseases, etc., etc. Kesrular systematic instruction such as this must tend CA’cntually to lessen the infantile death i-ate, and a thorough .school instruction in the rudiments of Hygieiu' would also prove helpful in the same dii’ection. 1 will now give the number of deaths from the various diseases, viz:— Xone. Foul- deaths occurred in the Cannock Avard, 1(5 in the Hednesford Avard, and 11 in the ('hadsmoor ward—total, 31—of Avhich 30 occurred undei- h years, and indicating a death rate per 1000 of 1’4. Xo death occurred from this disease in the })receding vear, though the death rate for the vear 1896 Avas 1-13. This disease is non-notitiable in this disti-ict, and an outbreak of it occuired last February in the Cieen Heath district, and last June in the IlightoAvn, Chadsmoor, and Green Heath districts, but not to the extent as to jinstify .school closure, though the disease Avas of a moi-e serious character than Avhen it prcA-ailed in 189(5. as the majority of the cases dnfted into pneumonia. . One death occun-ed in the Cannock ward, and 3 in the Clnidsmoor Avard—total, 4—all under b years, and indicating a death rate of ‘18 per 1000, against 12 in the ])rectding year Avith a ratio of •.'■)4. X one. One death under b occurred in the Cannock Avard, against 2 received for the Avhole district in the preceding year. One death occurred in the Woikhouse and one in Cannock, both over b years, against o]ie ease recorded for the preceding year. SmBlliKjx. Measles. Scarlatina. Diphtheria. Membranous Croup. Tyiihoid Fever.