[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Axbridge R.D.C.

  • Axbridge (Somerset, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Axbridge R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'MATERNAL MORTALITY. There was 1 death during the year from maternal causes. INFANT MORTALITY. Cause cf ~ Under 1-7 1-4 Total 1 -3 ~~~ 3-&~ S-9 9-12 Total Death. 1 day days wks under ninths' ranths ninths ninths under 1 ' 1 ninth. Year. Prematurity. 1 d - d ____ .> Congenital heart disease. ---- __i_ 1 Pneumococcal meningitis. ____ - - - 1 1 Pyelonephritis. - 1--- 1 12-3 1-11 6 After correction for transferable deaths, 6 children (all boys) under the age of 1 year died in 1955. This is 5 less than in 1954? and gives an Infant Mortality Rate of 16.3 per 1000 live births, as compared with 24«9 for the whole of England and Wales. This low Mortality Rate in infants gives great satisfaction and reflects credit on all the services connected with the care of mothers and infants. Prematurity was again the main cause of deaths in infants, accounting for 3 of the 6 deaths, and only two deaths were due to infect ion. WATER SUPPLIES. Considerable difficulties were met during the very dry summer in maintaining adequate water supplies in some areas, especially in Brean and Berrow. Here ±?he supply was augmented by means of a booster pump in the line of the main. Every parish has a piped water supply and 7?911 houses, . representing a population of 25?906 are supplied from the public mains. 15 houses representing 39 people obtain water from standpipes. 232 houses reply on wells for water supply and during the year a piped supply was given to 7 houses in place of a well supply. out The following extensions of in 1 955. the public water supply were carried Cost. Lascotts Hill, Wedmore. 650 yards 3 main. £1 ,400. Summers Lane, Banwell (part extention) 700 yards 3” main. £1 ,400. Further proposals for extensions or improvement are:- Completion of Summers Lane, Banwell - 700 yards. £1,400. Charterhouse Water Supply. £27?000. Cross Booster pump installation. £1,000. Trunk Main, Cross & Brent Knoll. £35,000. Replacement of defective mains. £70,000.