[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Southport County Borough.

  • Southport (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Southport County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COUNTY BOROUGH OF SOUTHPORT. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH AND SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER FOR THE YEAR 1940. TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE. The abridged form of report recommended by the Ministry of Health has again been adhered to. The statistical tables and tabular statements included in reports presented before the commencement of the war are completed and kept in the department for future reference. The birth-rates and death-rates have been based upon an estimated population figure supplied by the Registrar-General. Local observers usually have no reason to quarrel with the mid-summer estimate provided annually, but it will be appreciated that it must be extremely difficult in times such as these to arrive at such an estimate with any reasonable degree of accuracy. The year is noteworthy for the continued low infantile mortality rate. Forty children died before they attained the age of one j^ear. The rate of 43 deaths per 1,000 births is the lowest ever recorded. During the year the numbers of children immunised under the Com¬ mittee’s scheme cannot be considered satisfactory, but this was largely influenced by the great strain thrown upon the doctors in the town during the early months of the year when there was a marked increase in the number of persons suffering from Influenza.
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