[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Turton Local Board / U.D.C.

  • Turton (England). Local Board.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Turton Local Board / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To tile Chairman and Members of trie Turton District Council, Clentlemen, I have tiie honour of submitting to you my usual Annual Report of tiie sickness and mortality together with tiie record of sanitary work performed in tiie Urban Sanitary District of Turton during the year 1898. On October 1st certain out si do districts were added to your district which were constituted separate Wards of tue district, vis., Belmont, Harwood, -orth, tne original Urban Sanitary District becoming the Turton Ward. Consequently this Report deals only with the Turton T7ard for the whole year and with the other three wards in respect of the months October, l ovenber ancl j ece;-her. Tiie following tabulations will show you at a glance the sanitary condition of your district as based upon the mortality and s:i chness returns, Ac.:- Turbo Ward. 1898 . RaV' '-ner 1897 Rate per Average 1, 000 of 000 of Rate for population. population past 5 Deaths from all years. causes 84 11.8 96 15. 5 14.12 From Phthisis 8 1.1 7 0.97 1.01 From Bronchitis Pneumonia, he. 18 2.5 22 CO o • fcQ 5.16 From Zymotic diseases 2 C. 28 2 0. 28 0.86 Births 171 24. 08 148 80. 7 25.1 Deaths per 1,000 births per 1, 000 birtns Under 1 year 84 140. 5 15 101. 5 154. 9 Under 5 years 87 Tiie special features of interest and sanitary value in the foregoing table are: tne continued low deatu rate and Zymotic rate and tie favourable Phthisis mortality. The infant mortality is somewhat higher than the previous year but is still very much below the ave: ole country. The increased mortality amongst infants is not due to diseases over which we can exercise