[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Withington Local Board District / U.D.C.

  • Withington (England). Local Board.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Withington Local Board District / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The remainder of the diseases mentioned in this group, viz., enteritis, wasting, gastro-intestinal catarrh and convulsions, may be taken as resulting, chiefly if not entirely, from bad feeding. IV. The fourth group contains deaths the causes of which are beyond control. V. In the fifth group occurs a death—that from suffocation in bed while sleeping with the parents—which should not be passed without remark. This practice of putting an infant to sleep in the same bed as its parents is so fraught with danger that it is a wonder to find it still so prevalent, but that it is so is proved by the large number of children who annually lose their lives from it. Taking the whole of the 79 infants who died during the year, we find that .30 belonged to the township of Witliington, 15 to Didsbury, 27 to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, and 7 to Burnage. In the subjoined table the infantile death-rate per thousand births is given for each township separately, with the corresponding rates for the previous nine years. Comparison of the death-rates under one year in the four townships per thousand births. 1895 to 1904. Townships 1895 1896| 1897 189.8 1899 1900 1901 1902 19031901 Witliington. ... .1140 1-20 92 142 157 94 175 103 139 110 Didsbnrv . ... .100 96 ' 81 118 50 128 ' 89 H0 92 93 Chorlton-cum-Hardy . -, 90 90 84 152 90 121 78 105 SO 105 Burnage. _'no 148 165 132 102 114 255 95 89 104 It will be seen that the infantile mortality of Witliington, although lower than it was in 1903, still remains the highest among the four town¬ ships, the mean rate for the whole district being 94. The other three townships are all higher than their respective rates of 1903.