[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council.

  • Durham (England : County). Council.
Date:
1895
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Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Durham County Palatine / County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JARROW-ON-TYNE. J. M. Nicoll, M.B., Medical Officer of Health. Area in Acres, 728. Estimated Population, 1895, 35>86o. Birth-rate. Death-rate. Zymotic death-rate. Infant Mortality-rate. 30*9 18 '3 3*06 148 Phthisis death-rate, i *9 ; Respiratory diseases death-rate, 4*1. The general death-rate is satisfactory and below the average, though higher than the very low rate for 1894. The infant mortality-rate is also very satisfactory, and of late years has progressively decreased in the borough. Infectious Diseases. The notifiable diseases were somewhat more prevalent than in the previous year. There were 3 cases of smallpox, the disease having been imported by a sailor who arrived in the Tyne on an infected vessel. The prompt action of the sanitary officials, assisted by early notification and facilities for the isolation of the patients prevented the outbreak from becoming serious. Scarlet fever of a mild type was very prevalent towards the end of the year, the disease being largely spread by the parents neglecting to call in medical attendance and sending their children back to school, after an attack, while in an infectious state. The disease was noticed to be chiefly confined to children attending two schools, and on examining them several were found to be desquamating and in an infectious state. The invariable plea of the parents in such cases is ignorance, and the only way of preventing the attendance at school of children suffering from infectious diseases appears to be