[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Rochdale County Borough.

  • Rochdale (Lancashire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1937
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Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, Rochdale County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Respiratory Diseases. The deaths certified as due to respiratory affections, excluding tuberculosis, number 164, as compared with 185 in the year 1936. Pneumonia was certified as the cause of 75 deaths, bronchitis 80, and other respiratory affections 9. Cancer. There were 87 cases of this disease admitted to Birch Hill Hospital during the year, 19 of which had already received advice or treatment at other Hospitals. The arrangement with Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institution, Manchester, for the admission and treatment of selected cases of cancer has been continued, and during the year three cases have been referred thereto. The number of deaths classified to this cause was 165 (males 82, females 83), as against 171 the previous year, and which are arranged in age groups as below : Total Under 15-25 25-45 45-55 55-65 65-75 75 yrs. Year Deaths 15 yrs. yrs. yrs. yrs. yrs. yrs. and over 1937 ... 165 . — 1 .. . 14 .. .. 24 .. .. 53 . .. 54 .. .. 19 1936 ... 171 . . . - 1 .. .. 8 ., .. 29 .. .. 41 . .. 69 .. .. 23 The average annual number of deaths during the five years 1931-35 was 170. The death-rate was 1.8 per 1,000 of the population, and the previous year 1.8 per 1,000. No special local investigations have been undertaken during the year in connection with the incidence or causation of this disease General Provision of Health Services. Nursing in the Home. There has been no alteration in the arrangement for general nursing and nursing of infectious diseases as outlined in previous reports. In certain infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, ophthalmia, measles, etc., the local authority refer selected cases to the District Nursing Association for home nursing. During the past year much valuable work in this direction has been done by the staff of that Association, as shown in the following sum¬ mary kindly supplied by the Matron