[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Wombwell Local Board / U.D.C.

Wombwell (England). Local Board of Health.

Date:: 1938

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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Wombwell Local Board / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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URBAN DISTRICT OF W OMB WELL, MEDICAL OFFICER’S ANNUAL REPORT TOWN HALL, WOMBWELL, May, 1939. To the Chairman and Members of the Wombwell Urban District Council, Councillor Mrs. Mellor and Gentlemen, This is my nineteenth Annual Report on the' Health and Sanitary Administration of the Urban District. The birth rate shows an increase - 17-8 per 1,000, as compared with 17-1 in 1937. The death rate is 10-6 (adjusted 13-1) as compared with 10-8 (adjusted 13-3 in 1937). The infantile death rate shows an increase - 53*6.