[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham].

  • Twickenham (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1897]
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    To the Chairman and Members of the TWICKENHAM URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, 1896. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit to you my Thirteenth Annual Report as to the Health and Sanitary condition of the Parish of Twickenham. The Report will embrace the vital statistics of the year 1896, which terminated on December 31st, and a summary of the measures taken for preventing the devolopment and dissemination of disease. The forms supplied by the Local Government Board (Tables A and B) accompany ; the former, Table A, is that of the deaths ; the latter, Table B, that of the population, births, and new cases of infectious sickness, these tables are both classified according to diseases, ages and localities. Appended also to this Report are the forms supplied by the Middlesex County Council ; Table C (i., ii., iii., iv.) An analysis of the information required and the sanitary work accomplished during the year will be embodied in the text of this Report, under the respective headings, dealing with the various details as set forth in the columns of the above Table. During the past year I am happy to record a large decrease, amounting to 32, in the number of deaths from all causes, as compared with 1895. There has however, been an increase, amounting to seven, mainly attributable to deaths from Whooping Cough, in the number of deaths from the Zymotic Diseases. The death rate for the present year is 11.27 per 1,000, and the mean for the past five years is 13'4 per 1,000. With the exception of an outbreak of Measles in the Whitton district in the early part of the year there has been no prevalence of disease in more than usual proportions. Speaking of the health generally of the parish, the year on the whole may be considered above the average. The vital statistics for the year are calculated upon an estimated population of 18,000. The total number of deaths for 1896 was 203, which is at the average rate of 11.27 per 1,000. This number includes 10 at Whitton, eight at St. John's Hospital, one at the Powder Mills, and one at the Military Quarters at Whitton. TWI 035