[Report 1916] / Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council.

  • Essex (England). County Council.
Date:
1916
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Credit: [Report 1916] / Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As the Registrar-General’s reports will in future give all details of deaths in the Urban and Rural areas in the County, it is unnecessary to go to the expense of reproducing the tables here. The followiug information bearing upon the causes of death may, however, be of interest:— Deaths from Enteric Fever Urban District. 12 Rural District. 3 Administrative County. 15 „ Measles 52 ... 14 66 ,, Scarlet Fever 8 12 20 „ Whooping Cough ... 108 ... 26 . . 134 „ Diphtheria ... 95 ... 39 ... 134 „ Influenza 119 ... 86 ... 205 „ Heart Disease 780 ... 338 1118 ,, Bronchitis ... 537 ... 245 ... 782 ,, Pneumonia 409 ... 139 .. 548 ,, other lung diseases ... 123 ... 40 ... 163 ,, Diarrhoea 105 ... 28 ... 133 Infantile Mortality. The number of births in the County during 1916 was 17,883, and the number of deaths of children under one year of age was 1,195. The infantile mortality, therefore, waB a little under 67 per 1,000 births. TABLE III. Infantile Mortality. Deaths of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 Births. 1912. 1913. 1914. 1918. 1916. Urban Districts ... 72 75 78 88 69 Rural Districts 65 64 67 80 61 Administrative County 70 72 76 86 67 England and Wales 95 100 105 110 91 Table III. shows that the mortality amongst infants in Essex is always much below that for England and Wales, but there is no question that it can be much further decreased. During the year under consideration the rates varied in the Urban districts from 15 in Epping to 133 in Waltham Holy Cross, and in tho Rural districts from 36 in Stansted to 101 in the Tendriug area. Tho rates vary very much from year to year, especially in districts with small populations, bonce it must not be taken that those districts are the healthiest and unhealthiest respectively for infants but merely as the expression of the fact that an unusual number of deaths occurred in these areas during this particular yoar.