[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Alnwick (Union) R.D.C.

  • Alnwick (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Alnwick (Union) R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The deaths may also be analysed as regards age at death and for comparison I give the two preceding years : Under 1 Year, 5 Years, I5 Years, 25 Years, and under 65 Ye, one and under and under and under and year 5 15 25 65 over 1905. 40 20 5 12 47 53 1906. 33 8 9 »5 34 59 1907. 29 12 6 7 56 61 The information conveyed by this table is on the whole satisfac- tory. The number of infantile deaths is markedly reduced, and there is a general movement of the weight of figures to the old age end of the table. Seven of the twelve deaths between the ages of one and five were caused by infectious diseases. The deaths from tuber- cular disease go chiefly to swell the number of deaths between 25 and 65, as out of 13 no less than 10 are credited to that division. The part of the table relating to deaths over 65 is satisfactory, as it shows that the proportion of the total deaths included in that section was 35.6 per cent, as against 36.1 for 1906 and 30.5 for 1905. The infantile death rate for the whole district was 102.83 per 1,000 children born as against 122.32 for 1906 and 125.00 for 1905. In Warkworth Sub-district 174 children were born and 22 died under the age of one year. In Embleton Sub-district, 94 children were born and 7 died under the age of one year. In Denwick Sub-district 14 children were born and all survived. This gives the Sub-districts the following infantile death rates: Warkworth. Embleton. Denwick 126.43 7 r. 27 Nil From the above it will be seen that the infantile death rate is still much larger in the Warkworth Sub-district than in the Embleton. As I have several times pointed out this disproportion has existed for some years, and although there is a considerable improvement in the rate in the vVarkworth Sub-district this year, it is still excessive for a population living more or less under rural conditions. Thus in this Sub-district the infantile death rate rose steadily from 89.0 in 1903 to 147.2 in 1906, and has fallen to 126.43 in I9°7< 1° the Embleton Sub-district the opposite state of affairs has existed, the infantile death rate having fallen steadily from 171.7 and 171.1 in 1903 and 1904 to 85.1 and 71.2 in 1906 and 1907. I have great hope that the infantile death rate may be still fur- ther reduced by the gradual introduction of trained district nurses,