[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Abram Local Board.

  • Abram (England). Local Board of Health.
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Abram Local Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ABRAM URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. MEDICAL OFFICER’S (24th) ANNUAL REPORT, 1899. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, ROCK HOUSE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, February, 1900. I beg to submit once more my Annual Report, together with the usual official tables A and B of the Local Government Board as to the amount of sickness and mortality, also those for the County Council. I have the satisfaction to record a reduction in both the General and Zymotic Death Rates. The former, estimated on a population of 5,175 to the middle of the year, being 2i'4 against 25-3 for 1898, and exaCtly that of the average for the immediate decade. The Zymotic Rate is 2-75 against 5-13 in 1898. The average for the immediate decade being 3-71 The Infantile Death Rate still runs high, being 242 as against 247 in the previous year. As will be seen from the following table 50 per cent, of the children born dying within the first year of life, in which table also the causes are named. DEATHS IN INFANTS UNDER 1 YEAR. 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 Respiratory Diseases 6 16 9 18 9 18 Intestinal (Gastro, Enteritis) 6 10 6 8 10 7 Wasting Diseases of Infancy 4 8 7 11 12 H Convulsive ,, ,, 10 2 10 2 11 10 Tubercular „ ,, .. ... ... 1 4 2 26 36 32 40 46 5i Zymotic: Scarlatina 2 * Measles I I 2 ... ... Whooping Cough .. ... 3 2 ... 1 Diarrhoea . 3 12 5 26 39 39 44 58 57 Advanced Life. The average age of 5 males and 5 females dying beyond 65 was 71 ’7 years.