[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Batley Borough.

Batley (England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1909

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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Batley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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PART II.—INFECTIOUS DISEASES. The year 1909 ha‘=! not been marked by any .severe out- break of infectious disease. There is a reduction in the number of cases of Diphtheria and Typhoid, and an increase in those of Scarlet Fever. The type of Scarlet Fever which prevailed was very mild, some- times difficult to recognise and in consequence not easy to keep under control. In the accompanying table will be found the number of notifications and deaths from the principal infectious diseases in each year since 1890. It will be observed that notifications of Measles, Whoop- ing Cough, Mumps, Chicken Pox, and Diarrhoea, are included in this table for the first time. The arrangements by which the notification of those diseases has been secured are in- dicated below under their appropriate headings. ZYMOTIC DEATH-RATE.—The death-rate from the fol- lowing seven epidemic diseases. Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Diphtheria, Typhoid Fever and Diarrhoea, is called the zjjmotic death-rate, and some im- portance is attached to it as a criterion of the sanitary condition of a district. The Zymotic death-rate for 1909 is 0.78 per 1000 of the population as compared with 2.5 for 1908. This is the lowest zymotic rate that has been recorded in Batley.