[Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Cannock U.D.C.

  • Cannock (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1911
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Credit: [Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Cannock U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Workhouse.—Two oases of eczema, thirteen of diarrhoea, seven of phthisis, two of cancer, ten of rheumatism, four of scabies, two of mental deficiency, two of f^astritis, seven fractures, two of whooping cough, three of influenza, one of chorea, two of hernia, and one of gonorrhoea. Mr. Spooner, the Vaccination Officer, has obliged me Vaccination with the following particulars of vaccination, from 1st July, 1910, to 30th June, 1911, viz.:— 1911 1910 1909 Births 976 as against 917 ... 973 Vaccinated ... 465 „ 472 ... 620 Exemption Certificate 427 361 ... 265 Died before Vaccination 67 M 65 ... 71 Insusceptible 2 „ 2 1 Removals 11 11 ... 13 Postponements 0 „ 3 1 Not Vaccinated 4 „ 3 9 • • • W The number of illegitimate births for the year ending Births in 1909, 22 were males and 16 females. Included in these births are some in the Union Workhouse, where the mothers come from other Parishes outside Cannock. With regards to births and exemption from vaccination, rhe percentage of exemption certificates has now reached 43’7, as against approximately 40 in the preceding year. This fact, that nearly half of the total number of children born in this district are unvaccinated through an exemption certificate is, to my mind, a serious one, through the grave risk incurred in the possible advent of small pox in the district. Mr. Cole, As.sistant Overseer and Collector, has obliged No, of Houses me with the following information, viz :— distnot The three Wards are now sub-divided into six, and the respective number of houses for each new Ward is as follows, viz:— Cannock Ward 1.338 Bridgtown Ward ... ... ... 630 Heath Hayes and Wimblebury ... 783 Chadsmoor ... ... ... 1076 Hednesford ... ... ... 1020 Littleworth ... ... ... 737 Total ... 5584