[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Shewing Births, Deaths, from all and certain causes, Home Patients of the Dispensary, admissions to the Fever Hospitals, and some of the Meteorological condilions and the Death-rates from certain causes in Leeds ; with the Birth and Death-rates from all causes in the 77 large English towns for each of the thirteen weeks ended 1st October, 1910. JULY. AUGUST. SEPTEMBER. 1910. rd cn 3 July 16th. July 23rd. jj r-G ] O | CO >-> 55 1—1 (-7 vd do < rd 4-J co M do 3 < u5 -1—> 0 M db 3 C 35 M bio 3 < Sep. 3rd. j Sep. 10th. 35 3—' rs C3 3 CO 35 -4—> N Qh <U cn Oct. 1st. TOTALS OR AVERAGES. Total Births . 1 219 196 222 241 192 227 240 210 199 201 183 200 191 2,721 Total Deaths . 2 103 96 122 116 118 129 122 119 J33 118 I5I 129 100 L556 Under 1 year . 3 24 16 23 22 26 36 35 50 37 28 43 33 20 393 1 to 2 years. 4 8 6 8 6 IO I I IO 13 22 10 14 14 9 141 2 to 5 years. 5 4 2 8 IO 7 7 14 4 7 5 9 5 CO a 85 5 to 60 years . 6 34 43 52 55 42 48 37 35 41 40 43 47 42 559 60 yrs. and upwards 7 33 29 3i 23 33 27 26 17 26 35 42 30 26 378 Deaths: Small-pox.. 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,. , , , —7 Measles . 9 2 2 3 5 3 10 3 3 5 2 4 2 2 46 Scarlet Fever. 10 ... 2 ... 1 . . . 1 1 1 ♦«• 6 ^Diphtheria . 11 ... 1 1 2 ... 2 1 1 . . . 1 ., 2 . . . T I Whooping-cough.. 12 5 2 3 7 0 3 5 4 3 3 1 1 6 4 43 f Typhus Fever...... 13 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... . . . • • • •.. ... . • « •j Typhoid Fever ... 14 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. . . . . 1 1 1 3 ( Other or doubtful 15 . . . ”s 18 . . . ..« , , Diarrhoea or Dysent. 16 2 2 1 3 6 26 21 US 21 8 6 138 All seven. 17 9 5 9 17 12 26 34 26 30 20 27 19 13 247 Cholera (English) ... 18 . , , ... • . . • • • , « • • • • 1 1 2 Croup . Dis. of Resp. System 19 20 14 12 8 2 T 13 18 12 17 12 13 10 23 18 191 Influenzal' . 21 . . . . . . I . . . . . . 2 1 1 1 2 8 Phthisis . 22 10 9 11 IO 7 10 7 4 5 7 10 6 4 100 Dis. of Circul. System 23 10 7 12 9 14 IO 6 5 9 10 12 15 9 128 Violent Deaths . 24 2 8 7 7 J 6 6 6 1 4 6 6 3 7 J 61 Inquest cases . 25 4 13 11 6 15 11 10 6 8 15 14 7 6 126 Deaths in Pub. Inst. 26 19 21 26 24 29 29 21 20 16 17 25 27 19 293 Dispensary: visits pd. 27 134 [21 134 136 ii5 172 195 [89 192 170 145 240 207 2,150 Cases admitted to our own hospitals. 28 37 60 47 35 3i 35 3i 26 3i 42 5c 58 6q 544 Barom. (inches) . 29 29-89 30-04 29-76 29-61 29-69 29T5 29-822975 30-01 30-28 30-30 30-27 29-90 29-95 Attached Ther. °F... 30 62-92 67-31 67-15 66-62 (68-92 69-08 69-23 64 -o8 64-23 01 OO 63-38 63-31 65-23 65-73 Dry bulb. 31 59A4 65 -oo 62-62 62-54 64-92 65-62 64-5460-46 6i-o8!58-54,56-46;55-92 60‘OO 61 ’33 Wet bulb. 32 55-oo 58-62 56-85 58-08 58-38 59-77 60-1556-85 57-3i 54-62 52-85 51-62 56-77 56'6S Humidity . 33 74-08 68-15 68-77 75U8 65-77 71 31 75-69 78-54 77-92 76-6277-85 73-85 80-69 74-20 Mn. ofhighest reading 34 64-14 70-71 67-57 67-57 70-71 71-71 70-00 64-14 64-86 J>2-29 52-00 60-8659-86 65-57 66-15 ,, lowest ,, 35 51 'oo 53-29 54'43 53-57 53-86 56-00 57-29 53-86 52-29 49-86 48-29 51 oo 52-82 ,, daily range ... 36 i3'i4 17-42 I3'I4 14-00 16-85 15*71 12-71 10-28 12-57 10-29 11 -oo 11-57 14-57 13-33 Total rainfall (inches) 37 1-62 . . . o'59 0-30 0-30 0 -12 0-78 1-36 o-83 o-C'4 0-29 6-28 Wind /Direclion ••• 38 W NW NE NW SW SW w W SW NE W NW W w N NW W w (Force 0-6 ... 39 2 2 4 2 3 2 2 2 2 I I 2 2 2 Amountof Cloud 40 ... ... ... ... ... ... •• ... ... Birth-rate (Leeds) ... 41 23-3 20-8 23-6 25-6 20-4 24-1 25-5 22-3 21 -i 2I-4 I9M 21-3 20‘3 22 2 Death-rate (Leeds)... 42 10-9 I0‘2 13.0 12 3 12-5 137 13-° 12-6 i4-i I2‘5 i6'0 13-7 io-6 127 Death-rate (77 towns) 43 11 -o 11-4 11 -i 11 '3 10-7 11 -I II‘5 12 I I2-l II-7 12*6 IS’0 13-4 11 -6 Birth-rate (77 towns) 44 25-7 25-1 25-1 27M 21-6 26-7 25-7 25-0 24-4 ,24-4 23-3 23-7 23-8 247 D.R. lung dis. (Leeds) 45 i5 1 '3 0-9 2-2 I -4 I ’9 i-3 i-8 1 3 I 4 I -I 2 4 1 -9 1 6 D.R. Diarrhoea ,, 46 [ O-2 0’2 1 o-5 0'6 0-9 2-8 1-9 2'2 i-6 2-2 j 0-9 o*6 1 • 1 - — 1 lullli3Utu Uy ui cue icaiuciu Mu.11, anu udvc icgaiu Lo a week ended m each case a day earlier than that given in the heading. the meteorological data are compiled from returns sent us by Mr. Crowther. They are uncorrected readings, made at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. The humidity each week is the average of the humidities calculated on each of the thirteen observations of the wet and drv bulbs. On January 17th, 1906, the attached thermometer was removed into an inner room in which there was a fire. + Includes membranous croup. Line 19 includes non-spasmodic croup not returned as membranous, t Line 20