[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Pemberton U.D.C.

  • Pemberton (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1900
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Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Pemberton U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pemberton Urban District Council. Medical Officer’s Annual Report. 20th FEBRUARY, 1901. To the Chairman and Members of the Sanitary Committee. Gentlemen, I beg to present my Twenty-Seventh Annual Report on the sanitary condition of the Urban District of Pemberton for the year ending December, 1900, together with the New Tables, I.-IY., issued by the Local Government Board, and Revised Tables, A and B, of mortality and sickness within the district, classified according to diseases and ages, with C (summary of report) for the Lancashire County Council. The births registered during the year total 869, as compared with 835, 769, 839, 893, 771, 849, 814, 844, 749, and 816, for the preceding years. Of the number of births 426 were males and 443 females. In the first quarter 247, in the second 219, in the third 207, in the fourth 196. In the first lialf of the year 466, in the second 403. The birth-rate is 39 5 as compared with 40-9, the average for the ten preceding years, and less for the last seven years than in the seven years previous. The deaths number 432, as compared with 449, 387, 401, 381, 384, 518, 372, 366, 398, and 351, for the ten preceding years. In the first quarter 116 were registered, in the second 104, in the third 122, in the fourth 90. For the first half of the year 220, for the second 212. Of the total, 219 were males and 213 females. 220 (57 first quarter, 45 second, 75 third, and 43 fourth) were amongst children of two years of age and under, 125 of these under six months (33 first quarter, 27 second, 43 third, and 22 fourth). The death-rate is 19*4 as compared with 20 3, the average for the ten preceding years; also less than this for the seven previous years as compared with seven former years. The rate from the seven principal zymotic diseases is 32 as com¬ pared with 4-2 for preceding year and 2 75 for previous ten years. Diseases Prevalent.—Enteric fever, whooping-cough, and diarrhoea contribute four-fifths of the total number of deaths. No deaths are recorded from small-pox, typhus, erysipelas, or cholera. There are no common lodging-houses in the district. No deaths nor cases of plague, peripheral neuritis, neutris from beer, metallic or other poisoning were discovered. i During the decade, viz., in 1896, a mother and child were the only cases of small-pox. They were removed to Hospital, where the child died on February 5th. The family from Worsley Mesnes were placed in quarantine at the Hospital. Those who had been in contact were vaccinated, and the disease was stayed.