[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunbarton County Council.

  • Dumbartonshire (Scotland). County Council.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunbarton County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Department of Health for Scotland and the County Council and District Committees of Dunbartonshire. Gentlemen, I have pleasure in submitting the Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary Conditions of the County during the year 1929. There are also included the District Sanitary Inspectors’ Reports and the Reports of the Veterinary Inspector and the Engineer. There have been one or two changes in the staff during the year, and these are referred to in the appropriate place in the lists of staff. In connection with this it will be noticed that Mr. P. J. C. M'Kenzie, who had been in the Sanitary Inspector’s Office in George Square for twenty-seven years, had to retire during the year owing to ill-health. The figures now submitted do not materially differ from those of the previous year, but it might be noted that the general tuberculosis rate in the County is lower than the rate for all Scotland. This is graphically shown on the chart facing page 14. On the other hand, the infantile mortality rate for the County has gone up owing to a large increase in deaths of children under one year of age in the Western District. It is to be hoped that this is just an accidental and temporary deviation from the downward trend, which is liable to occur when dealing with small figures coupled with a falling birth-rate. It should also be recorded here that there have been no serious epidemics during the year, and that in no instance was the hospital accommodation unduly taxed. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, Thomas Lauder Thomson. Health Office, 88 College Street, Dumbarton.