[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Long Eaton U.D.C.

  • Long Eaton (Nottinghamshire, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Long Eaton U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s 0 Long Eaton Urban District Council. Annual Report for the year 1909 TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. Gentlemen, I beg to submit for your consideration my Annual Report for the year 1909, being my Twenty-third Annual Report concerning the vital statistics and general sanitary condition of the District. The outstanding feature of the year, so far as the vital statistics are concerned, has been the steady diminution of the Death-rate. This has now reached 7'07 per 1,000 of the population (a lower figure than has ever been recorded in this District) against 8'9 in 1908. Also the Infantile death-rate has been reduced from an average of ten years of a 139 per 1000 of the births to 83'6 against 76 in 1908. I much regret to have again to draw attention to the decreas¬ ing birth-rate in the District. There has been 490 births registered during the year against 575 last year, showing a decline of 85 births during the year, giving a birth-rate of only 23‘9 per 1,000 against 28.5 last year. This birth-rate is considerably below the average of the rest of the country. During recent years there has been great progress and development in public health matters in the District, at the same time that the general public are beginning to take an intelligent interest in public health work ; and I find each succeeding Annual Report in consequence is more sought after and is more widely read than in former years. The voluntary Health Associations now in existence have brought