[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    compared with the preceding, but not as compared with the two previous quarters. Enteric fever was reported in 84 cases, typhus in 18, and continued fever in 1, or to speak more correctly in several of the cases reported as typhoid it was found that the disease was typhus, and the dwellings were treated accordingly. Puerperal fever and erysipelas was reported in 77 cases, whilst the whole reported group consisted of 639, as against 565, 618, and 874 in the three preceding periods of thirteen weeks each. The deaths from measles fell to 68 against 160, 114 and 50 in the three preceding quarters. The deaths from whooping cough also fell to 26, as against 72, 95, and 47, coming thus below the average of the four quarters of 1903. The deaths ascribed to diarrhoea were 394. Our death-rate from diarrhoea has been already given as 3-5. This is also the number with which the Registrar-General credited us. The average in the 76 towns was 4’0, our own average for the preceding ten years was 3‘4, our rate for the two last years having been somewhat unusually low. While the rate in 1904 was not an excessive rate for Leeds, it is apparently associable with the period of dry weather, dry atmosphere, and great disparity between day and night temperatures. Fourth quarter—The deaths from diarrhoea fell in the fourth quarter to 35, from whooping cough to 15, from measles to 2, as compared with 394, 26 and 68 from those diseases in the third quarter. The diseases reported as infectious were 748, somewhat in excess of any of the preceding quarters of the year, but 126 fewer than in the fourth quarter of 1903, and nearly 400 fewer than in the average of the quarters for that year. Small-pox cases had increased to 24, scarlet fever to 352, diphtheria and membranous croup to 93, while continued fevers, in this case all enteric, fell to 87. Puerperal fever and erysipelas were reported in 103 cases.