[Report 1924] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough.

  • Pontefract (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1924
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Credit: [Report 1924] / Medical Officer of Health, Pontefract Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The principal factors in the causation of these returns are in my opinion : — (1) . The overcrowding* which is still existent in the Borough. (2) . The amount of slum property with unsatisfactory sanitary arrangements. (3) . The amount of pollution of the air by smoke. (4) . The conditions associated with depression in trade, together with the continued high price of food commodities. The remedying of these would be the speeding up of the building of new houses, in the hope that eventually some of the most insanitary, badly lighted and ventilated property could be done away with. The conversion where possible of earth closets into water closets. A general im¬ provement in the method and system of collecting and dealing with refuse, and in the sweeping of the streets and cleansing of the gullies. Special efforts to educate the mother, also the expectant mother, in the feeding, clothing, and general hygiene connected with the rearing of a baby, to encourage mothers to take advice during the antenatal period. III.-NOT! FI ABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEAR. Total Ca? es Admitted Total certified . to Hospital. deaths Small Pox —T — Diphtheria 10 10 3 Scarlet Fever 58 56 1 Enteric Fever 6 4 1 Puerperal Fever 2 — 1 Erysipelas 9 — -— Tuberculosis : — Pulmonary— -Males . ... 23 Females 17 Total ... 40 Non-Pulmonarv—Males . • * • • 6 Females 3 Total ... 9