[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council.

  • Durham (England : County). Council.
Date:
1900
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Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DARLINGTON RURAL DISTRICT. Charles M. Hardy, M.B., Medical Officer of Health. Area in Acres, 42,034. Estimated Population, 1900, 9,367. Birth-rate. Death-rate. Zymotic death-rate.. Infant mortality-rate. 19*5 x4'7 i’2 103 Phthisis death-rate, i*o. Respiratory diseases death-rate, 2 °2. The birth-rate is very low indeed, but the chief mortality statistics are satisfactory. Sixty-one, or nearly half of the deaths occurred during the first quarter. Infectious Diseases. There were 51 cases of infectious disease notified, and 38 of these were scarlet fever, which was especially prevalent in the Heighington district. There were 8 cases of diphtheria, 4 of which were fatal, and there were also 2 deaths from croup. Three cases of enteric fever occurred in different parts of the district, one at Heighington being fatal. The report does not refer to the probable causes of the cases of enteric fever and diphtheria. There were 4 deaths from diarrhoea, 3 of which were at Middleton-St.- George, and there were also 4 deaths from influenza. Six patients were removed to the Borough Hospital, and all infectious cases were visited and disinfectants supplied, and the premises afterwards disinfected. General Sanitation. The report states that samples of drinking water from the public supplies throughout the district have been analysed, and steps taken to render the wells as free from surface pollution as possible. The supply from the three public wells at Haughton-le-