[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Darlington County Borough.

  • Darlington (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1926
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    COUNTY BOROUGH OF DARLINGTON. Health Department, Feethams, Darlington. 'o the Chairman and Members of Health Committee, County Borough of Darlington. entlemen, I have the honour to present herewith the Annual Report 1 the work of the Health Department. This present Report not so comprehensive as that of last year which, by the in- ruction of the Ministry of Health, was a retrospective survey. The untimely demise of Dr. S. G. Most.yn, your respected edical Officer for the past fifteen years, followed by the more •cent death of Alderman E. Wooler, has removed men whose pe experience and considered opinions have established a scheme ? public health work which I have been honoured to carry on. onsidering the exceptionally difficult year through which we rve passed, by reason of industrial disputes and unemployment, think progress has been maintained in all our schemes. Attention may be directed to the following features of itcrest :— (a) The lowest birth rate ever recorded in Darlington, 17.9 per 1,000. (b) The lowest death rate recorded, equal to that of 1923, 11.9 per 1,000. (c) No deaths from scarlet fever, diphtheria and membranous croup, measles and german measles, though 215 cases of these diseases were notified. (d) The low death rate from diarrhoea and enteritis in infants. (e) The extension of facilities for consultations at the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres and Ante-Natal Clinics, and the Registration of Private Maternity Homes in the area. (j) Arrangements for the nursing of cases of puerperal infection in our Fever Hospital.