[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Bridlington U.D.C. Borough.

  • Bridlington (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1907
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Bridlington U.D.C. Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    8/26 (page 8)
    noted with satisfaction that only 17 resulted from Phthisis and other Tubercular Diseases as compared with 27 in the preceding year. Cancer, too, was less prevalent, having caused only 10 deaths, as compared with 15 in 1906. Diseases of the Heart and Diseases of the Respiratory Organs were answerable each for 26 deaths. Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord had a fatal termination in 16 cases, and 21 were due to Senile Decay. Influenza is certified as the cause of 8 deaths, Measles of 6, Whooping-Cough 2 and Diphtheria 2. Accidents caused 3 deaths and there was 1 Suicide. The number of Inquests was 13. Yearly Mortality from certain Diseases since 1895. 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 Cancer 10 13 12 12 10 16 18 15 7 20 15 10 Tuberculosis 19 11 18 29 33 16 21 25 26 20 27 17 Influenza .. 3 2 8 5 15 4 5 4 8 9 2 8 Bronchitis I Pneumonia V 25 24 38 25 21 27 31 11 26 27 18 21 f Pleurisy j 1 Infectious Diseases. During the months of May, June and July we had an outbreak of Measles affecting all the three Wards of the Borough. At the commencement, the cases were mostly confined to children attending the Hilderthorpe elementary school, but very soon the disease spread to the Quay Wesleyan Schools, then to the Central and National Schools. With the view of keeping it in check as far as possible, all the children in each house where a case occurred were excluded from school till all risk of conveying infection was over. The schools were not closed till the holidays at the end of July and I do not think that much good would have been effected by closing them any earlier. Scarlet Fever cases of an exceedingly mild and un- complicated type kept cropping up throughout the year. There were 18 cases in all and 12 of these were taken to the Sanatorium, while the remainder were isolated at home. These 18 cases were pretty equally distributed throughout all three localities and very little connection could be traced between them except as in one or two instances where several members of a family developed the disease about the same time. This disease has long been held to be most infectious during the desquamation stage, but many medical men are beginning to be very sceptical as to the infection being conveyed in the dead skin and it is worth noting that in the