[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Horwich U.D.C.

  • Horwich (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Horwich U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Public Health Department* Public Hall, Horwich. To the Chairman and Members of the Horwich Urban District Council. Gentlemen, I have the honour to present for your information and consider- ation the annual report on the health and sanitary circumstances of the Urban District of Horwich for the year 1955 together with certain relevant statistics. According to the Registrar General’s mid year estimate the population of the district has increased by 30. During the year there were 204 live births, exactly the same number as last year, and there were 3 still-births. The Live Birth Rate for the year is 12.8 and the Still-Birth Rate 14. Of the 204 live births 5 died during their first year and of these 4 died before the end of their first month, giving an Infantile Death Rate of 25 which compares very favourably with previous years. It is pleasing to be able to record once again that no mother died as a result of child birth during the year. The Adjusted Death Rate for 1955 is 12.3 as compared with 12.5 in 1954. As in previous years the sanitary circumstances of the district have been kept under close supervision, particular attention being given to housing and sanitation, water and food supplies and to smoke abatement. The incidence of notified infectious disease has been slight - only 3 cases of scarlet fever, 30 cases of measles and 15 cases: of whooping cough being made known to the Department. The small outbreak of Food Poisoning (16 cases) was part of a larger outbreak in a neighbouring town, no secondary cases arose in Horwich.