[Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Exeter City & County.

  • Exeter (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1911
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Credit: [Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Exeter City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Table for 1902-1909 is for the 76 Great Towns, and for 1910 for the 77 Great Towns. The Deaths of Exeter Residents due to the Notifiable Diseases were :— Small Pox. Diphtheria Membranous Croup Scarlet Fever Typhoid Fever Puerperal Erysipelas Total 0 3 0 3 2 0 0 8 Notifiable Zymotic Deaths. Of these deaths—1 from Scarlet and 1 from Typhoid Fever occurred at the Sanatorium, 1 from Scarlet at the Taunton Isolation Hospital, and 2 from Diphtheria at the Heavitree Isolation Hospital. The Deaths from Non-Notifiable Diseases were :— Noil- Notifiable Zymotic Deaths. Measles Whooping Cough Diarrhoea Total 57 0 26 83 Giving a Death-rate for Notifiable Diseases at T6 per 1,000. and the Non-Notifiable Diseases at 1*70 per 1,000. The Death-rate from the seven commoner Diseases in England and Wales for 1911 was T88 per 1,000 ; in the 77 Great Towns it was 2*29 per 1,000 ; in the 136 Smaller Towns it was 198 per 1,000 ; and in England and Wales less the 213 Towns it was 1*40 per 1,000. The Death-rate in Exeter was 1‘86 per 1,000.