[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Norton U.D.C.

  • Norton (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Norton U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 With regard to Measles, which is not amongst the diseases notifiable, I should like your Council to consider the desirability of reporting the first case in each house. Measles, though looked upon lightly, has some very dangerous sequeloe, and I notice three deaths due to Pneumonia following measles, and probably caused by insufficient care in the first instance. The schools both in Norton and Mai ton were closed on account of an epidemic of measles this year, and no doubt if the first cases had been notified, the disease would not have spread to such an extent. There are many instances of children suffering from the after effects of measles. Births and Deaths. There is a slight falling off in the number of births, there being 128 as compared with 140 in 1894. Estimating the population the same as last year, viz : — 3,750, the death-rate is very much lower, being 12-53 per 1,000, as compared witli 20’2 of last year. The year 1894 was an exceptionally healthy one, and the death-rate all over England was smaller than for some years previous. Births. Deaths. January. Males. 8 Females. .. 5 Total. .. 8 January.. .. Males. .. 3 Females. .. 4 . Total . 7 February ... . 3 .. 8 .. 11 February .. .. 2 .. 1 . 3 March. 5 .. 3 .. 8 March .. .. 0 1 1 April . 8 .. 7 .. 15 April. .. 0 .. 3 . . 3 May. .. 7 .. 3 .. in May . .. 2 .. 2 . 4 June . . 6 .. 0 .. 6 June . .. 2 .. 0 . . 2 July . 7 .. 3 .. 10 July . .. 3 .. 3 . . G August . . 9 .. 6 .. 15 August .. .. .. 0 .. 2 . . 2 September .. . 7 .. 5 .. L2 September .. 5 .. 1 . . 6 October. 7 .. 4 .. 11 October .... . . 1 .. 3 . . 4 November .. . 5 .. 7 .. 12 November .. .. 1 .. 1 . . 2 December ... 8 .. 2 .. 10 December .. .. 3 .. 4 . . 7 Total. ...75 53 128 Total. ... 22 25 47