[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Hebden Bridge U.D.C.

  • Hebden Bridge (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Hebden Bridge U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered, is equal to 118‘2 per 1000. The proportion of deaths among this class for the year 1897, to every 1000 births registered, is equal to 113-2 per 1000. Of these twenty-two infants who died under one year, five were pre- maturely born. Five deaths were between one and five years ; seven were between five and fifteen years; four were between fifteen and twenty-five years ; thirty-three between twenty-five and sixty years, and twenty-nine were sixty years and upwards. One violent death occurred from a fall and was investigated by a coroner’s jury. As to the causes of the various deaths, it appears that six arose from Phthisis, twenty-six from inflamma- tory lung diseases, and eight from heart diseases : none of which vary much from year to year. We have had only four deaths from the seven principal zymotic diseases, viz., one from Con- tinued Fever, two from Typhoid Fever and one from Diphtheria, with a z3miotic death-rate so low as 0 4 per lOCO. Another death from Typhoid Fever occurred at the Hospital, and was registered in the Todmorden district, and which rightly belongs to us. The vital statistics for the year 1898 are, on the whole, favourable. They comprise a birth-rate of 22*2 per 1000, higher than the two previous years ; a death-rate of 11-9 per 1000, the lowest ever recorded for the district ; a low infantile mortality (118-2 per 1000), three only being lower in the last ten years; and a zymotic death-rate of 0-4 per 1000, the lowest but one in the last decade. The Infectious Diseases prevalent in Hebden Bridge during the year 1898 were largely in excess of those for 1897. Forty-four cases were reported to me under the “ Notification Act,” as compared with twenty-six for the preceding year. Although these diseases have unfortunately been more numerous, I am pleased to add that they have a lower general mortality than the same class in 1897, as indicated by the zymotic death- rate of 0 4 per 1000. They are as follows : Continued Fever 1, Typhoid Fever 8, Diphtheria 4, Erysipelas 7 and Scarlet Fever 24. Continued and Typhoid Fevers.—Six of these were sent to Hospital, of whom one died ; the remaining three were treated in Hebden Bridge, all of whom died. This mortality is heavy—four dying out of nine. The advantages of recovery