[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster R.D.C.

  • Doncaster (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    UNCERTIFIED DEATHS numbered 3 (:= -09) as com- pared with the same figure last year, and 6 in the year previous. So low a number of unregistered deaths is very satisfactory, as from a theoretical point of view there should be no deaths in the country where the cause is unknown. PfITfIJSIS PULMONALIS, or Consumption of the Lungs (26 deaths = 0*84 per 1000). There were 26 deaths registered from Consumption during the year, yielding a rate of ’84 per 1000, or 1 in every 17*1 of the deaths from ordinary diseases. Being a preventible disease, it would more properly be included under that heading. Last year there were 21 deaths, and in 1902 there were 16. The rate, though somewhat above our average, is under that of the country generally, as is to be expected in a Rural district. OTHER TUBERCULAR DISEASES {Id = 0*42.) Deaths from these diseases numbered 13, and of those 4 were due to an affection of the Abdomen, 6 to the Head, and 3 to general Tuberculosis. It is estimated that 15,000 children under ten years of age die from the various forms of Tubercular diseases in England every year. The total deaths from all forms of Tubercular diseases number 39, yielding a death-rate of 1*27. Last year there were 43 deaths, giving a rate of 1*42. The disease is declining in adults (Consumption of Lungs), but increasing in children (other forms of Tubercle). TUBERCULOSIS. In my last annual report I recom- mended certain measures as likely to be of service in pre- venting the spread of the disease. These consisted in— 1st.—Voluntary Notification of every case of consumption. 2nd.—Removal of cases in the early stage of the disease to a Sanatorium.