[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Knaresborough U.D.C.

  • Knaresborough (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Knaresborough U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V \ V Infectious Diseases. Disease. Total Cases Notified. Cases admitted to Hospital. Small Pox ... ■ Scarlet Fever 7 7 Diphtheria ... 3 3 Enteric Fever — Paratyphoid Fever — — Puerpera Fever — — Pneumonia 4 — Ophthalmia Neanatorum — Encephalitis Lethargica ... 1 — Tuberculosis. Age. NEW CASES. Pulmonary. Non-Pulmonary M F M F I — — — — 5 — — I — 15 — 2 — -— 20 — — — — 25 — I —- — 35 I I — — 45 2 I — — 65 and upwards ’ — — — Consideration of the above tables, show that Cancer, Tubercle, and diseases of the Heart and Blood Vessels are still responsible for the majority of deaths. There is a satis- factory diminution in the number of those due to Influenza, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia. While, with the exception of one due to Scarlet Fever, there is a complete absence of deaths due to any of the ordinary Zymotic diseases. Infant Mortality.-— Deaths under one year of age is very satisfactorily reduced from 107-1 per 1,000 births, for ]ast year, to only 40 per 1,000 births, the rate for England and Wales being 75. This improvement, great and satisfactory, points to a better sanitary condition of the town, better housing, better supply of milk, and to the good work done by the Infant Welfare Clinic.