[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Horfield Local Board / U.D.C.

  • Horfield (England). Local Board.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Horfield Local Board / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Horfield Urban District Council. Gentlemen, It gives me pleasure in presenting my annual report lor the year 189(5 to state that the general health of the District during this period has been very satisfactory. We have unfortunately in common with Bristol and adjacent districts, suffered froa a wide-spread epidemic of Scarlatina, but it lias bean of an extrei ely mild character, and the percentage of deaths small, while those who have fallen victims to this dreaded complaint, will hereafter have the advantage of boinr probably safe from over contracting the disorder again. The births registered during the year numbered .'528 being at the rate of 26.5 per icon p^r annum, as compared with 26,6 in the previous year, ana .51.o for the .56 large towns. The deaths numbered 129 representing a rate of 11.2 as against 12.4 in the preceding year, and 1J.5 tor the largo towns: our average for the lust ten years being 12.2. Thirty five of the deaths ware of infants under a year oia, including ten from premature births, ana giving an infantile mortality of ldj per 1000 births. Twenty-one deaths occurred between the ages of 1 ana b, six between 5 and 15, seven between 15 and 2b, thirty-two between 25 anu 65, and 2 (whoso ages averaged 76) at 65 and upwards. The aistrict »us entirely free from Smallpox during the year, but as already mentioned. Scarlatina was very prevalent, the nuttber notified being 120, five ending fatally. iVeasias and Whooping Cough also were slightly prevalent, three of the former and five of the latter proving fatal. (1)