[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham (England). City Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    those which arise from the natural prejudice of the patients and their friends against a new thing not generally adopted. The cases and deaths were distributed over the usual age-periods, as follows :—0-1 year, 8 cases and 2 deaths; 1-5 years, 211 cases and 11 deaths ; 5-15 years, 343 cases and 6 deaths; 15-25 years, 85 non-fatal cases; 25-35 years, 26 non-fatal cases; 35-45 years, 8 non-fatal cases. The case death-rate under 1 year was high, being equal to 25 per cent. The rate in the 1-5 years period is usually the highest of all, but during 1905 it was nearly double the rate of the previous year. In the next period, 5-15 years, the case-mortality was equal to only 1*7 per cent., as compared with 2'6 in 1904. Beyond this age-period we have the exceptional record of 119 cases without a death. Notifications of Scarlet Fever, during each of the Four Quarters of 1905, in the Registration Sub-Districts of the City. UlSTEICT. First Quarter. Second Quarter. Third Quarter. Fourth Quarter. Totals. 13 ul well • • 53 29 17 44 143 N.W. • • 32 42 27 43 144 N.E. • • 39 48 46 48 181 S.W. • • 32 25 16 29 102 S.E. • • 37 36 21 17 111 Totals • • 193 180 127 181 681 The distribution of the disease over the various divisions of the City in each quarter of the year is given in the accompanying table. It was exceptionally uniform. The drop in the third quarter was unusual. The death-rate from scarlet fever in Nottingham during 1905, per 1,000 living, was equal to only 0*07 (7 per 100,000). This rate is exceptionally low. The only lower annual death-rates from scarlet fever since the borough extension (1877) were those of 1901 (0*05), and 1886 (0'06). The death-rate per 1,000 from scarlet