[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Wycombe R.D.C.
- High Wycombe (England). Rural District Council.
- Date:
- 1951
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Wycombe R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Many factors have brought about this satisfactory position “ continuity of ants-’Datai carej* clinical super- vision of the infant by welfare clinics and general practi'^ tioners, health visitingj, earlier diagnosis of disease^ therapeutic advances, and an increasing interest in mother^ crafto The resultant saving in child life is vitally impor- tant sQot on]y as a worthy end in itselfbut also in its direct relationship to the economic and labour difficulties v/hich are unavoidable in an ageing population» You will see that the number of recorded births is again below the figure of the previous yearo Only the further lowering- and that will be difficult - of the infantile mortality rate can possibly bridge the gap in the ''replacement rateso This gap is not the kind of problem which emigration solveso The type of family to emigrate is the young one3 leaving a further preponderance of old people3 and replacement far below the economic needs of the countryo The death rate is slightly less than last year - 10^4 compared with 10o3 “ and is still substantially^ below the general ratCo As one would expect3 by far the greatest proportion falls on the cardiac group, which accounted for 33o7^ of the total, excluding diseases which had their* origin in vascular defectSo](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2942818x_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
