[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Bispham-with-Norbreck U.D.C.

  • Bispham-with-Norbreck (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Bispham-with-Norbreck U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Diseases oe the Cikcueatouy System. There were five deaths registered from Diseases of the Circulatory System, making a death-rate of 3‘28 per 1,000 of the population per annum. Ca.\cek>. Two deaths were registered during the year from cancer. One case being that of cancer of the stomach occurring to a man of 80 years, and the other being cancer of the liver, the victim being a female visitor aged 40 years. Death-rate from cancer equals 1'31 per 1,000. Phthisis. Pythisis Avas registered as the cause of death in one case only, making a death-rate of '65 per 1,000 of the population per annum. This occurred to a lady visitor, and on making enquiries soon after her death 1 ascertained that she had come in the District in an advanced state of consumption in the hope of regaining her health. It is deploralile that a large propoi'tion of visitors suffering from the later stages of Consumption frequently come to the north-west coast, with hopes of recruiting, when neither this coast nor any othei- will benefit them. During the year 1905 a number of visitors suffering from early Phthisis came under my own obsei'vation, and practically all were able to I'ctui'n home with thcii' health much impi'oxcd. .My c.xperience is, that any person suffering from Phthisis in an early stage (unless it is general Tuberculosis) will reap benefit by staying in the district, as the air is so pure, and this is most essential m this particular disease. As a Health Resort 1 can- not speak too highly of Bispham and Norbreck.