[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Leatherhead U.D.C.

  • Leatherhead (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1897
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Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Leatherhead U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AREA, 3541 ACRES. POPULATION 1 At Census, 1881 - ) At Census, 1891 - 3533. 4305. Report of the Medical Officer of Health, with regard to the Year, 1897, I.—Vital Statistics: Births and Deaths. 1. Assuming that it has increased at the same rate since the census 1691 as it did during the preceding decade, the Population of the district, in the middle of the year, may he estimated at 4850 persons. 2. The number of Births registered in the district during the year was 101, (as against 81 in the previous year,) which represents a Birth-Rate of 20 8 per 1000 of the estimated population. (See also Table C. at the end of the report.) 8. The number of Deaths registered in the district during the year was 41, to which must be added ten deaths in the Epsom Workhouse, in the Cheam Isolation Hospital, and in the County Asylum, of persons belonging to the district. This total of 51 deaths represents an Annual Death-Rate of 10'5 per thousand of the estimated population. 4. As to the Infant Mortality. The deaths during the year, of Infants under one Year, were nine in number, and were at the rate of 89 per 1000 births registered. 5. The deaths from Pulmonary Consumption (5 in number), were at the rate of about 1 per 1000 of the population. 6. The deaths from other Lung Diseases (pleurisy, pneumonia and bronchitis), were G in number, and were at the rate of P2 per 1000 of the population. (See also Tables A. and C). II.—Summary of Sickness and Mortality, during the year, from the seven Principal Zymotic Diseases, and from certain other diseases which have to be notified under the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889, and of the Action taken for preventing their spread. 1. —Small Pox,—No case of this disease was reported. 2. —Whooping Cougii caused no death. 8.—Measles caused no death. 4.—Scarlet Fever, (otherwise called Scarlatina), was rather prevalent during the greater part of the year, 42 cases having been notified in 26 houses. Thirty-three of the sick were removed for treatment to the Epsom Rural District Council's Isolation Hospital at Cheam, and one was removed from the Cottage Hospital to the Croydon Borough Isolation Hospital, from which she was transferred to the Joint Isolation Hospital on Cuddington Downs. One of the illnesses ended fatally at home. In some families as many as four cases occurred, and in some the earliest cases were so mild that their nature was not at first recognised and the disease spread in consequence to others in the house and to those in other houses. Iu May all the Public Elementary Schools, except those on the Common, were closed for three weeks, by the advice of the Deputy Medical Officer of Health, as a precaution against the further spread of the disease. Ten of the infected houses were at or near the Fairfield. Into one house the disease was probably imported by some children who had been sent there for safety from an infected house at Clapham. (See also Table B. at the end of the Report.)