[Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, St Just U.D.C.

  • St. Just (Cornwall, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1906
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Credit: [Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, St Just U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    annual REPORT of the ST. JUST URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. February 9th. 1907. Mr. Chairman ana Gentlemen, Luring the year 1906 there were 130 births registered, 58 males and 72 females, 4 less than the year preceding, giving a birth rate of 23.02 per thousand of the population. 98 deaths were registered, 50 males and 48 females, an increase of 14 deaths on the previous year, giving a death rate of 17.35 per thousand of the population. Sixteen deaths occurred in children under one year, a decrease of 8 as compared with 1905, which is satisfactory. There were 8 deaths from 1-5 years, seven from 5-15 years, three from 15-25 years, thirty from 25- 65 years, and thirty-four from 65 years and upwards. Heart-disease has claimed most victims, 15, an increase of 6. Phthisis is second with 14 cases, an increase of 2. (I may here state that many of the deaths were due to Miners' Phthisis, a very distinct disease from that of Tubercular Phthisis, but for statistical purpose is classed under the same heading) Ten deaths were due to Apoplexy, 8 to cancer, 6 to senile decay, 5 to bronchitis, 4- each to diarrhoea, pneumonia, other tubercule diseases and accidents, 2 each to enteritis, cirrhosis of liver, premature birth, diabetes, suicides, 1 each to erysipelas, ether diseases of the respiratory organs, Brights disease, washed ashore, 'and 9 to all other causes. You have before you, I am sorry to say, a decreasing birth rate, and an increased death rate. There were 55 cases of infectious diseases notified under the Act, 15 diphtheria, (1 membranous croup), 18 erysipelas, 22 scarlet lever. I am pleased to say that only two cases proved fatal, one being erysipelas, and the other diphtheria. The total cost under this Act to the Council was j.,6 16 0.