[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Hitchin U.D.C.

  • Hitchin (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Hitchin U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deaths from Puerperal Causes Deaths from Cancer (all sites) ... ... ... ... 29 Deaths from Measles Deaths from Whooping Cough Deaths from other infective and parasitic diseases ... 1 Comment on Local Vital Statistics.: The estimate by the Registrar General of local mid-year population shows a further rise of 170. The Local infant mortality rate compares favourably with the National rate, while the still birth rate is approximately equal. Only two deaths are finally allocated to Tuberculosis (all forms). SECTION B. GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES. These are unchanged. SECTIONS C—E . SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA, HOUSING AND INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD. Full reports on the above are contained in the attached report of your Senior Sanitary Inspector. SECTION F. PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES. For the whole year totals of notified cases of acute infectious diseases (after correction) were: — Scarlet Fever ... ... ... 25 Measles ... ... ... ... 13 Whooping Cough ... ... 9 Dysentery ... ... ... 5 Acute Pneumonia ... ... 1 Puerperal Pyrexia ... ... 8 Scarlet Fever was rather more prevalent than in previous years with a quartcrlv incidence 3, 4, 2 and 16. Age distribution was: — Under 5 years ... ... ... 3 5-9 years ... ... ... • 20 And 10-14 years ... ... ■ 2 The disease was at no time epidemic and in its incidence very scattered, indicating a fairly widespread ‘ carrier state ’ and much sub-clinical infection of children. Actual cases were almost