[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough.

  • Hastings (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. 11e;i 1111 I )eparl ment, 44, Wellington Square, Hastings, April, 1929. To His Worship Thu Mayor, and to the Aldermen and Councillors of the County Borough of Hastings Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit herewith the Annual Report of the Health Department for 1928, which, by instruction of the Ministry of Health, is an Ordinary Report, as compared with the next five-yearly full Survey Report, due in 1930. The following summary draws attention to the more salient features of the health statistics for 1928 and of the work of the various departments under my control. Vital Statistics. The Registrar-General has estimated the mid-year population for 1928 at 62.600, an increase of no less than 1,040 over the estimated population foi 1927 ; this in spite of the fact that the crude death-rate exceeds the birth-rate. As regards the most important vital statistics for 1928, the crude death-rate, 15 0 per 1,000 of population, corrected lor age and sex distribution to 10 8 per 1,000, is slightly below the figure tor 1927, viz., 15'5 per 1,000- The birth-rate, 12'0 per 1,000 of the population, also continues to decline. The infantile mortality figure, 51 per 1,000 births, shows a definite fall from the figure of 1927, 66 per 1,000 births, and is well below the average tor the large towns. Special attention has been drawn to three main causes' of death, cancer, diseases of the heart and circulation, and diseases of the respiratory system. Infectious Diseases. Apart from an increased prevalence of diphtheria in ihe second hall ol 1928, fully commented upon in the body of the report, the incidence and mortality ot the notifiable infectious