[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans Urban Sanitary District & Rural Sanitary District.

  • St. Albans (England). Urban Sanitary District.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans Urban Sanitary District & Rural Sanitary District. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    favourable than they are had it not been for the prevalence of Scarlet and Enteric Fever in various parts of the district. The death-rate in the various parishes was as follows : — St. Peter’s. 13*8 St. Stephen’s .-. 7*09 St. Michael’s.. 6 7 Sandridge. io*6 Harpenden .... 98 Wheathampstead. 13*9 Red bourn. 15*5 There were 2 deaths from Accident or Violence during the year, one in Redbourn of a woman 30 years of age, a school¬ mistress, who was stated to have been “ feloniously run over and killed by a cart,” and the other in Wheathamp¬ stead, of a young woman who “ swallowed poison whilst in a state of delirium caused by Typhoid Fever.” There were 4 Inquests during the year, one on a man of 52 years of age, who was stated to have died of “ Syn¬ cope.” Another on a male child of 3 years old who was said to have died of “ Convulsions following Bronchitis ” ; and the other 2 on the cases of death from Accident or Violence mentioned above. There were three uncertified deaths : one, that of an man aged 77, who is said to have died of “ Senile Decay,” and the other two were of children of 1 day and 2 days old, respectively, one of whom is stated to have died of “ Premature Confinement ” ! ! and the other of “ Imma¬ turity or Congenital Feebleness.” During the year there were 429 registered births, 207 of males, and 227 of females, and the birth rate was therefore 28 3. Under the Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act 1 16 cases of Scarlet Fever, 33 cases of Enteric Fever, 2 of Diphtheria, 1 of Puerperal Fever, and 1 of Erysipelas, have been notified to me, 153 in all. Of the Scarlet Fever cases, 16 occurred in Harpen¬ den, 52 in Wheathampstead, 37 in Sandridge, 4 in St. Peter’s, 4 in St. Michael’s, and 3 in St. Stephen’s. There was more or less Scarlet Fever in the district throughout the year, but it was not till April that it began to assume anything like an epidemic form. In May, June, and July there were a certain number of