Report of the City Health Department / City of Winnipeg.

  • Winnipeg (Man.). Health Department.
Date:
[1929]
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Credit: Report of the City Health Department / City of Winnipeg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report of the Medical Health Officer City Health Department, Winnipeg, Man., March 7th, 1930. Chairman and Members of the Committee on Health. Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit for your consideration the report of the Health Department for the year 1929. This includes the reports of the heads of Divisions together with a statement of the cost of the year’s work. STATISTICS Within recent years there has been a great development in the hospitaliza¬ tion of morbidity and maternal cases, and this development has taken place amongst both city patients and those in extra-urban areas. As a consequence of this change, the number of non-resident births in Winnipeg in 1929 amounted to over 27% of the registered births, and the non-resident deaths to 20% of the registered deaths. These large proportions of non-residents have unduly biassed our vital sta¬ tistics and in an endeavor to remedy this condition, corrected figures for the City have been prepared by deducting non-resident births and deaths and adding to the remainder the births and deaths of Winnipeg residents registered in the adjoining City of St. Boniface, and deaths of Winnipeg residents in Ninette Tubercular Sanatorium. These corrected rates are given in the following sum¬ mary. The registered deaths, excluding stillbirths, numbered 1,817. Assuming the population to be 205,083 (City Assessor’s figures), this gives a crude death rate of 8.86; in 1928 the rate was 8.92. The corrected number of deaths, ex¬ cluding stillbirths, for 1929 was 1,581, giving a corrected rate per thousand population of 7.71. The number of registered deaths in children under one year of age was 253, giving a mortality rate of 56.03 per 1,000 living births. This is the lowest rate we have on record. The reduction is primarily due to fewer deaths from diseases of early infancy, only 122 such deaths occurring in 1929 against 173 in 1928. The corrected number of infant deaths for 1929 was 211, giving a corrected infant mortality rate of 58.6, the lowest yet recorded, against 65.9 for 1928.