[Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Bootle County Borough.

  • Bootle (Lancashire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1899
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Credit: [Report 1899] / Medical Officer of Health, Bootle County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cause of the preponderance of infant mortality in the first quarter was the excessive mortality from diseases of the lungs and air passages, and that in tlie 3rd quarter was undoubtedly the large number of deaths from diarrhoea, which fatal infantile disease carried off in these three months 116 children under 5 years, 87 of which were infants under 1 year, the total infant mortality (under 5 years) from this disease during the year being 132. On comparing the total mortality in Bootle in 1899 with that of the previous year, it will be seen that there was a decrease in the number of deaths from 4 of the principal zymotic diseases in 1899, viz,, a decrease of 1 from measles, G from typhus, 7 from enteric (or typhoid), and 7 from whooping cough. There was an increase of 2 from diphtheria, 82 from diarrhoea, and 12 from influenza. With regard to other diseases and causes of death, there was a decrease of 2 from diseases of the stomach, and of 8 from deaths through violence. On the other hand there was an increase of 14 from tubercular disease (including 5 from Phthisis), 19 from diseases of the brain and spinal marrow, 10 from diseases of the heart, G from diseases of the kidneys, and no less than 66 from diseases of the lungs and air passages, and of 23 from “ uncertified deaths.” According to the Registrar’s Returns there was a decrease of 3 in the number of deaths in the Bootle Borough Hospital, and a decrease of 14 in the Corporation Hospital for Infectious Diseases. There was an increase of only 18 in the number of paupers attended by the District Medical Officer during the year, the numbers in the 4 quarters having been as follows:—1st quarter 313, 2nd quarter 207, 3rd quarter 221, 4th quarter 210; total, 951. Table number 4 gives a summary of the deaths from the various classes of diseases, including the important class of zymotic diseases, the mortality from every one of which diseases is separately enumerated, but table number 3 gives the total number of deaths from these zymotic diseases after “ deducting and adding deaths from outside and inside the Borough.” In accordance with the order of the Local Government Board, I will now pass on to refer to the sanitarn loork accomplished during the year, and supply information (as in former years) on each of the seven principal zymotic diseases, and give a summary of the action taken, or which I have adrised the Sanitary Authority to take to prevent the spread of these diseases. ZYMOTIC DISEASES. The number of deaths from the 7 principal zymotic diseases, viz,, small- pox, measles, scarlatina, whooping cough, fevers and diarrhoea (after deduct- ing 9 deaths of persons “ outside the district,” viz., 2 from scarlatina, 3 from