[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Exeter City & County.

  • Exeter (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Exeter City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Deaths of Exeter Residents due to the Notifiable Infectious Diseases, excluding Tuberculosis, were: — Notifiable Zymotic Deaths. Small- pox. Diphtheria. Membraneous Croup. Scarlet Fever. Typhoid Fever, Puerperal. Erysipelas. Total. — 3 — 1 3 — I 8 Giving a Death-rate of *133 per 1,000. One dentil from Diphtheria, one death from Scarlet Fever, and one death from Typhoid Fever occmred at the Exeter Isolation Hospital. The Deaths from the following Non-Notifiable Infectious Diseases were :— Non- Notifiable Zymotic Deaths. Influenza. Whooping Cough. Diarrhoea. Under 2 years. Total. 9 17 12 38 Giving a Death-rate of ’63 per 1,000. The Death-rate for Exeter for the seven commoner Diseases, viz.: Enteric, Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping- Cough, Diphtheria, and Diarrhoea (under two years of age) was '597 per 1,000,