[Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Hay U.D.C.

  • Hay (Wales). Urban District Council.
Date:
1949
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Credit: [Report 1949] / Medical Officer of Health, Hay U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INFANTILE mortality. This is the nuraber of deaths occurring in The rate is calcula children ted per 1000 Males, of under one live births Females, year of age. Total, i 10. t] 0 9 1938 2 .76,8 1939, 1 1940 102,0 1941,,.,,,,, 1942 1 ,36,0 1943 .41,0 1944 1945 ,41,0 1946. 1 .41,0 1947 1948 1949 .90,0 England and Wales, 1949 ,32,0 Analysis of Causes of Deaths, Males,,,., Cause, Ma1e s, Females, Tuberculosis Respiratory System.10, Influenza 1 0, Cancer Stomach, ,, ,2, 0, Cancer other sites,, 1 1. Intracranial vascular lesions 0 ,,,,,,,,,, 1* Heart Disease, ..2,,,..,., 7, Bronchitis 1 - «0, Ulcer St om.ach, ,,,.,,0,.., ..,,.,1> Appendicitis ,l,,,o,,..,».....0. Other digestive diseases,,, ..........I........ 0, Congenital Malformation, 1,.,.,,,,,,,,«*«0, Violent causes 1,,. .2, All other causes ....,..,1 »,,3. The deaths are classified under the headings given in the new Abridged List of Causes, ILLEC-ITIfiACY, The number of Illegitimate births registered as belonging to residents of the district in 1949 amounted to Two, }!\A TER MA L M OR TA LIT Y, There vi/ere no deaths during the year which could be attrlbutod to childbirth. SECTION 2, GENERAL PROVISIONS OF HEALTH SERVICES. Public Health Officers, The same arrangements existed during the year as in the previous year, Mr,0,0,Evans acted as your Sanitary Inspector, and was employed in a similar capacity by the Rural District of Hay and Fainscastle, Lab ora t orj Fro Hit ies , During the yec.r laboratory facilities were ava? iD-ble at Hereford, Cardiff, Newport, Carmarthen, Swansea, Aberystwyth and Brecon, All water samples^vi/ere sent to the Pub3.1c Anaj.yst for the County at Carmo.rthen whilst any investigation required in the control of infectious disease could be performed at the Public Health Laboratory at Cardiff and at Hereford, All the milk testing was done by the National Health Testing and Advisory Laboratory at Brecon,