[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Halifax County Borough.

  • Halifax (England). County Borough Council. nb2008024085.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Halifax County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COUNTY BOROUGH OF HALIFAX. REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, FOR THE YEAR 1945. INTRODUCTION, To the Chairman and Members of the Health Committee. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present the Annual Report upon the Health of the Borough for the year 1945, which, like its war-time predecessors has been confined to essential matters. The Report is the seventy-third of the series. The incidence of infectious diseases remained low. The incidence of diphtheria was the lowest on record and I am of the opinion that immunisation played an important part in this regression of a serious and killing disease. The incidence and mortality of tuberculosis and the incidence of venereal diseases declined a little, though, of course both tuberculosis and venereal diseases were above pre-war levels. The following statistics are of interest :— Year Death- rate Infant Mortality Rate Maternal Mortality Rate Number of Neo-natal Deaths Number of Stillbirths Number of Births 1945 16 1 42 2.0 35 34 1,465 1944 14.5 38 2.3 39 46 1,752 Although Infant Mortality has been greatly reduced, Neo- natal Mortality (deaths occurring in the first month) has been little affected during the period of the falling infant death-rate. The fall has been, not in the first month, but in the subsequent eleven months. ' I would point out that many neo-natal deaths