[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Mossley Borough.

  • Mossley (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1918
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Credit: [Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Mossley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HEALTH DEPARTMENT Medical Officers Report. TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE. Gentlemen, 1 have the honour to submit the Annual Report for 1918. The births registered during the year were 91 of males, and 85 of females, the total of 176 being 2 fewer than last year, and including 15 illegitimate. The birth rate per thousand of the population is 13.8, as compared with 14 in 1917, and with 17.7 for England and Wales. The number of deaths belonging to the district is reduced from 186 in 1917 to lo9. The death rate being correspondingly reduced from 16.3 to 14.9. The rate for England and Wales is 17.6 The natural increase, or excess of births over deaths, which was extinguished by war conditions in 1917, is, therefore, 7. f The chief causes of death vary somewhat from the preceding year. Influenza heads the list the two epidemics in July and October causing 27 deaths. Respiratory diseases come next, Bronchitis again being prominent with 24 fatal cases. There is a considerable diminuation in the number of deaths due to Heart disease : 13 as against 26 last year, and a noticeable increase in those ascribed to Cancer, viz. 18 as compared with 8 in 1917, No deaths were caused this year hy Diabetes. Infantile Mortality. The deaths of infants under 1 year numbered 14, as against 8 in 1917. Two of these were illegitimate. As last year the majority were due to congenital conditions, and not to illnesses acquired after birth which empbazises the need for treatment of expectant mothers. The infantile death rate per thousand births is 68 for 1918. For the mean of 10 years 1908-1917 it is 97 ; a very satisfactory decrease.