[Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, Halifax County Borough.

  • Halifax (England). County Borough Council. nb2008024085.
Date:
1906
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Credit: [Report 1906] / 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 JA S. T. NEECH, M.D., D.P.H., For the Year 1906. INTR O DU CTI ON. To the Chairman and Members of the Health Committee. Gentlemen, In accordance with the requirements of the Local Government Board, I have the pleasure of placing before you the Thirty-fourth Report on the Health of the Borough, being the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ended December 31st. 1906. I regret that I have again to state that the birth- rate for the above year is the lowest on record. Year by year this important rate continues to fall, although the fall for the year under notice is only very small, even compared with that of the previous year. I fear however that this is not an indication that we have got to about the limit in the constant and gradual diminution that has been annually going on in the number that are born. I wish there were definite signs of such a result, for I fear that the birthrate will fall still further before that limit is reached.