[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough.

  • Hastings (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    o TO THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND BURGESSES OF THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF HASTINGS. Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit to you my Report on the Health, Sanitary Condition &c. of the Borough for the year 1905. The statistics of mortality and disease exhibit some interesting features, and are, on the whole, very satisfactory, more particularly so as regards those diseases which are more directly under the control of the Sanitary Authority. The total deaths registered were, in 1905, fewer in number and the general death- rate, 12 67 per 1,000 of estimated population, was lower than in any year since the extension of the Borough in 1897. There was an entire absence of typhoid fever and of fatal diphtheria of local origin throughout the year, features which cannot fail to be a source of gratification to you as the responsible Sanitary Authority. On the other hand, whooping-cough and measles, diseases of which we have only incidental information, caused an unusually heavy mortality amongst young children in our poorer neighbourhoods. As compared with the previous year the births registered in 1905 showed a slight increase, and the birth-rate a fractional advance, being 17*7 per 1,000 against 17 6 in 1904 ; with that exception, however, the birth-rate of 1905 Was the lowest hitherto recorded.