[Report 1892] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham.

  • Birmingham (England). Council.
Date:
1892
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Credit: [Report 1892] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Health Department, The Council House, Birmingham, March 20th, 1893. TO THE HEALTH COMMITTEE. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I beg to present my Annual Report, as Medical Officer of introductory Health for the City, and would take the opportunity of briefly Remarks' calling attention to some of the points dealt with in more detail in the report itself. The Death-rate for the year was a fairly satisfactory one, being identical with the average of the rates for the previous six years. It was below the rate for the thirty-three largest English towns, and below that for the Metropolis. The infant mortality was rather smaller than usual. The Zymotic Death-rate was a fairly normal one. A further reduction occurred in the mortality from Scarlet Fever. The Deaths from Diphtheria were more numerous than usual. Typhoid Fever, I am pleased to say, caused the smallest number of Deaths ever recorded from it. A slight outbreak of Smallpox occurred, fortunately without resulting in a single Death, though 27 cases were recorded, most of them connected with the invasion by the disease of a workshop in Ernest Street. The cases notified as Diphtheria were very numerous, but there seemed reason to doubt whether all of them were due to true Diphtheria. The cases of Typhoid Fevei were comparatively few, but those of Erysipelas were numeious. Both the cases and Deaths from Puerperal Fever were more numerous than usual. i. vital statistics. On November 9th, 1891, the City of Birmingham was so Population, extended as to include within its limits the Local Government Districts of Balsall Heath, Saltley, and Harborne, and the Hamlet of Little Bromwich. At the census taken in April, 1891, the total population of these four localities was 48,915, and this added to the number of persons living in the old City, gives 478,116 as the census population for the enlarged Municipal area. At the previous census the number of inhabitants was 436,971, and from these figures it is estimated that at the middle of 1892 the population of the Citv was