[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Lampeter Borough.

  • Lampeter (Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Lampeter Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Your Worship tho Mayor, Aldermen and Members of the Lampeter Borough Council. PEERAGE. It gives me pleasure to present the Annual Report of the Health Department for the year ended December 31st, 1956, The number of live births registered was twenty-five, a decrease of three on the previous year. Two of these births were illegitimate. There were no stillbirths registered and no child died under the age of twelve months. No mother died in childbirth. The number of deaths registered was twenty-three, five fewer than in 1955. Six deaths were ascribed to heart disease, seven to vascular lesions of the nervous system (strokes) and four to cancer. There were no cases of death caused by accident. In the field of Infectious Diseases it is quite remarkable that not a single case was notified during the year. Two new cases of Tuberculosis were notified, but I am very happy to report that no deaths were caused by this disease, which in the past took a heavy toll of the young people in this country. Unfortunately, I am not able to state that the sanitary condition of the Borough is satisfactory. At present all sewers discharge crude sewago into streams. I sincerely hope that the Ministry will allow us to proceed with our long overdue scheme in tho near future. A more detailed account of the work of the Department will be found in the ensuing pages, which include the report of the Public Health Inspector, Mr. T.R. Sambrook,