[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds R.D.C. (Roundhay and Seacroft).

  • Leeds (England). Rural District Council (Roundhay and Seacroft)
Date:
1897
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Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds R.D.C. (Roundhay and Seacroft). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IRuval Council of ILeebs (ROUNDHAY AND SEACROFT). Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ended December ^ist, 1897. There have been altogether 35 deaths of all ages in the district. Of these, 24 occurred at Seacroft, ii at-ifeundhay. Correction has to be made for persons dying violent deaths in the district, but not belonging tp it, and of these there are three,—one to be subtracted from the Seacroft account, two from the Roundhay ; another died at Manston Fever Hospital. Further, there is a death in the Seacroft district of a person only newly arrived ^h-~t*~ 1 Ml I ^ Mill ft m'in niniiil]’ migrntrr^ ' ■ ^... a ftwumJluij lij(? The sum total of Seacroft deaths is thus 2/, and of Roundhay f The population of Seacroft I imagine to be fairly stationary, increases by births being compensated pretty nearly by emigrations and deaths ; while there are no fresh houses being built. Roundhay, on the other hand, continues to increase rapidly. As a whole, the population of the district must have increased, and I estimate it, allowing for excess of births over deaths and new houses occupied, as having increased by 160 ; which, added to the estimated number of last year, comes to 3,350. The corrected death-rate therefore appears at 8'9 per 1,000, a very satisfactory result. But the satisfactory part of the return belongs to Roundhay alone. The population of Seacroft scarcely exceeds 1,000—is probably somewhat below it—and the total of deaths is 22 ; a rate exceedingly large for a village district. The births, 61 in all—the birth-rate per 1,000 is therefore 18*2 ; the deaths under one year number 6, all in the Seacroft district. The infantile death-rate, therefore, stands at 98 per 1,000 born ; but this is much understating the facts, for which I cannot estimate by the births in Seacroft only, where all the deaths occurred : I have to count in the Roundhay births also, which are not separated in the returns. If half of the births belong to Seacroft, the Seacroft infantile mortality becomes 196 per 1,000. Six deaths occurred from zymotic diseases, viz. :—whooping cough, two ; influenza, two ; one each from scarlet fever and enteric ; two deaths occurred from phthisis. The health of the whole district, then, during the last twelve months, has been up to the average, both as judged by the death-rate and by my own experience of the sickness-rate. There has been no epidemic throughout the year : even the diarrhoea, which you so often see in the early autumn, and which laid Leeds waste and was fairly virulent in the country around us, has been conspicuous by its absence in anything like an epidemic form—a fact which again I attribute to the same causes as last year. There have been sporadic cases of scarlet fever and the like, as always.