[Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Swinton & Pendlebury Borough.

  • Swinton and Pendlebury (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1969
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Credit: [Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Swinton & Pendlebury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MATERNAL MORTALITY There was one death attributable to childbirth in connection with 625 live and stillbirths which occurred in 1969, giving a maternal mortality rate of 1-6. The maternal mortality rate for Eng¬ land and Wales in 1969 was 0.19 per 1,000 live and stillbirths. CANCER The number of deaths which have been due to this cause (including leukaemia) in recent years has been as follows :— 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Cancer of stomach . 13 8 16 19 11 Cancer of lung, bronchus 23 22 22 33 23 Cancer of breast. 10 11 5 8 8 Cancer of uterus . 3 5 4 3 6 Cancer of other sites 46 61 49 44 39 Leukaemia, aleukaemia... 1 2 2 1 1 Totals 96 109 98 108 88 This gives for 1969 a cancer mortality rate of 2.14 per 1,000 compared with 2.65 per 1,000 in 1968. The national rate for 1969 was 1.74 per 1,000. The 23 deaths from cancer of the lung and bronchus give for Swinton and Pendlebury a death rate from this cause of 0.56 compared with the national rate of 0.61. PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES There were 372 notifications of infectious diseases (including tuberculosis) during the year, as compared with 315 during 1968. The distribution of these cases as between various age groups and in the various wards of the town is shown in Table V, while in Table VI the infectious diseases experience of 1969 is seen along with that of the preceding 24 years. There were 34 cases of sonne dysentery compared with 5 in 1968 and 51 in 1967. For the twenty-first year in succession no case of diphtheria was notified. No case of paralytic poliomyelitis was recorded in the district during the year.