[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council.

  • Warwickshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1900
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Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To Office of the County Medical Officer of Health, 14, Temple Street, Birmingham, June 13th, 1901. the Sanitary Committee of T he Warwickshire County Council. Mr. Chairman, My Lords, and Gentlemen, 1 I have the honour to hand you herewith my second annual report as County Medical Officer of Health, though it is the twelfth report I have made to your Council on the health of the County, giving summaries of the reports of the District Medical Officers of Health. 2 I propose to adopt the same form as in the previous years, viz., a summary of each Medical Officer of Health’s report, followed by a consideration of statistics and other matters affecting the County as a whole. In the statistics the birth, death, and Zymotic death rates are calculated per 1,000 persons estimated to be living, while the infant mortality is reckoned on children who die under 1 year of age per 1,000 registered births. URBAN DISTRICTS. ASTON MANOR. 3 Mr. F. H. May reports that the past year has been, speaking generally, quite as favourable to health as the two previous ones. Scarlet Fever has been widely prevalent, though not very fatal in its effect. Typhoid Fever has continued its hold on the district, also epidemic infantile Diarrhoea, although the high mortality of last year has not been maintained. Diphtheria has been present at times with considerable mortality, and has called for special attention. 4 The general death-rate remains low, and the birth-rate continues fairly high. The Zymotic death-rate, although high, shows a reduction on last year, and the infantile death-rate shows some decrease on the average of the previous five years. 5 Mr. May reports also that he issued a circular letter to the medical practitioners in the district, informing them that it was necessary, by order of the Local Government Board, to notify any case of Plague that might come under their notice. Mr. May calls attention to the fact that, owing to care¬ lessness on the part of parents in allowing children suffering from Scarlet Fever to be exposed while in an infectious state, proceedings were taken and the.parent fined. 6 Mr. May reports that Measles has been the cause of 32 deaths during the year, and says, “ Although Measles is not compulsorily notifiable in this district, the Aston School Board have con¬ tinued to supply me weekly with written notifications of all the cases which come to the knowledge ot their attendance officers, and they also supply me with reports of the subsequent visits in these cases. During the illness other children in the house are excluded from school, and neither they nor the