[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Driffield R.D.C.

  • Driffield (Humberside, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Driffield R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    age of the actual cases. The cancer death rate is higher than last year, but lower than 1908. The death rate from diseases of the heart is higher than for some years past and higher than the general rate for the whole country. Pneumonia and bronchitis occupy much the same positions in the table as last year and approach very near to the general rate in the country. The cancer death rate is still higher than that of the whole country, although this also is gradually increasing. The highest cancer death rate was in the Bainton sub- district. The following deaths from the other diseases specified in Table 4 of the Local Government’s tables took place during the year :— Measles 1, Whooping Cough 4, enteritis 2, gastritis 1, erysipelas 2, premature birth 9, accidents 8, suicide 1, and other diseases 75. The increased number of deaths has not been due to the prevalence of any special disease, but has been distributed generally throughout the list. This is more satisfactory, as it does not show any laxity of sanitary administration, but is probably due to causes more or less outside the control of the sanitary authority. INFANT MORTALITY. Under this heading also our situation is not as satisfactory as that to which we have been accustomed for many years. During 1910 the number of infantile deaths was 42, quite an unusual feature of our reports Six of these were the early deaths of three sets of twins. The infant mortality rate was 134 per 1000 births. This is the highest I have ever recorded in my report. Of these deaths 17 occurred in the first month of life, as compared with 11 last year, and 8 during the second month as compared with 1 last year. These two months largely account for the increase. Convulsions and wast- ing diseases account principally for the increase. The rate for the whole country was 106 per 1000 births, and for the rural districts 96 per 1000 births as compared with our figure of 137 per 1000 births. Very few of these deaths this year were those of illegitimate children, which is a cause for satisfaction. I append a table for comparison of these rates within the district and in the country generally. llleg. births. No. of deaths. Rates perl000 bths. per lOOOilleg. bths District. 1910. 1910. 1909. 1908. 1910. 1909. 1908 England and Wales 106 109 121 195 233 220 77 Great Towns 115 118 1281 no cr 255 136 Small Towns 104 111 125 j Aoo Rural England and Wales... 96 98 110 157 175 160 Deiffield Rueal Disteict 42 134 112 93 137 321 255 Langtoft Sub-district 15 157 97 96 133 375 285 Bainton do. 12 150 145 128 100 125 333 Driffield do. 7 94-6 123 52 77 455 200 Boston do. 8 143- 71 96 250 0 200