[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Salford County Borough.

  • Salford (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Salford County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cent, were children under five years of age. The mortality, as might be expected, is heavier among the latter class, being 19 per cent, of the cases, as is shown in the above Table. Scarlet-fever Sickness.—Rates per 1,000 of the Population. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. 1897. Mean. 1898. Salford (Borough) ... 425 506 560 738 334 513 306 og /Regent Road ... 438 469 5-13 8-36 3-59 5-23 366 o| iGreengate . 176 3*45 2*67 6-99 3*00 3-57 3-50 ) Pendleton . 5'i8 6‘i5 8‘68 7*59 2‘^8 6*04 2*28 '^Broughton . 471 5’66 474 5'62 4*26 5*00 278 In respect to district, 128 cases occurred ,in the Greengate District, 264 cases in Regent Road, 139 cases in Pendleton, and 128 cases in Broughton. The attack rate per 1,000 living under 15 years of age in the Borough, was 8‘5. It is gratifying to find year by year an increase in the pro¬ portion of cases removed to the Ladywell Sanatorium. Thus, in 1894, 51 percent, of the cases were removed, in 1895 the per¬ centage was 53, in 1896 it was 59, in 1897 62, and in 1898 it reached 73 per cent. Unfortunately return cases, as they are termed (that is, fresh cases breaking out in the house after the return of a convalescent from the Hospital, presumably free from infection) occurred, although in small numbers. The Committee, with a view of doing everything possible, to prevent this, decided to build a Con¬ valescent Pavilion, with a large Sun-room, so that patients who were convalescent might be kept apart from all acute cases for some time before being sent home ; and an application to the Local Government Board for power to borrow money for this pur¬ pose is now under consideration. DIPHTHERIA. There were 90 cases of diphtheria notified during 1898, com¬ pared with 81 in 1897, and 157 the average for the preceding five years. This increase is probably accounted for by the decrease in