[Report 1878] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough.

  • Leicester (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1878
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Credit: [Report 1878] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    those ot the two previous quarters, clue in great measure to diarrhoeal fatality. 1 he rise in the mortality of some of the towns is, however, much greater than in others, and in Leicester is so great in degree as to effect a complete alteration in the previous relationships of the town, for with the exception of Hull, the mortality reaches higher limits than in any of the towns tabulated. Plate IV. shews that the town during the winter quarter once more enjoyed comparative immunity from Zymotic mortality. I say immunity from Zymotic mortality, for it must not be supposed that the death-rate from other causes was subject to an equally satisfactory decline. The death-rate of children under one year from convulsions, wasting diseases, &c., still continued high. This fatality amongst children may be accounted for if we take into consideration the influences to which many of them were, during life, subjected. The majority lived under, and were impressioned by, the fatal influences that prevailed during the previous quarter. Some of them had suffered from prolonged attacks of diarrhoea and ultimately recovered. The convalescents were, however, in many, instances left either with enfeebled constitutions or shrunken frames ; amongst such life held but a feeble tenure, and subsequent ills, which more robust consti¬ tutions would have borne with impunity, were here sufficient to cause death.