[Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Berkshire County Council.

  • Berkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1927
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Credit: [Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Berkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Chairman and Members of the Public Health and Housing Committee of the County Council. The birth-rate of the County in 1927 was 14-74, which is two per 1,000 of population below the birth-rate of England and Wales during the same period and a lower figure than any recorded for the County except in 1917, when the birth-rate fell to 14-59 per 1,000 of the estimated population. The general death-rate, 12-36, is almost identical with that of England and Wales, and very slightly above the average for Berkshire during the past ten years. The rate of infantile mortality, 47-77, is a fraction below that of the preceding year and compares favourably with the rate for England and Wales, viz., 69. The number of notifications of diphtheria and also of scarlet fever was again below the average of the preceding ten years. 37 cases of enteric fever were notified, although this number is not large, it is considerably above the average of recent years. In the body of the report will be found particulars of the various Health Services for which the Public Health Committee are responsible ; the usual statistical tables are given at the end of the report. A portion of the parish of Wokingham Without, formerly part of the Wokingham Rural District, was incorporated in the Borough of Wokingham from the 1st October, 1927. The necessary adjustments have been made in calculating the various rates for these two districts. GERARD C. TAYLOR, County Medical Officer of Health. Shire Hall, The Forbury, Reading, 30th June, 1928.