[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council.

  • Warwickshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1933
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Credit: [Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ 9. Of the total deaths registered in the County, 855 were attributable to Heart Disease, while Cancer and Malignant diseases accounted for 557 deaths, Pneumonia 225, Influenza 221, and Respiratory Diseases other than Tuberculosis 225. 10. 191 deaths were registered from Pulmonary Tuberculosis, givjng a death-rate of 0.52 per 1,000 of population, as compared with 0.49 per 1,000 in the previous year. 11. Infant Mortality.—271 deaths were registered in children under one year, an Infant death-rate of 54 per 1,000 births, as compared with 55 per 1,000 births in 1932. The death-rate in the Urban Districts was 51, and in the Rural Districts 58 per 1,000 births, as compared with 52 and 60 respectively in the previous year. 12. Of the 271 deaths under one year, 159 or 58.6 per cent, were due to congenital debility, premature birth or malformation at birth. It is in the prevention of these deaths that our efforts should be directed if any further substantial reduction is to oe effected in the Infantile death-rate, the mean of the last five years being 54.6 per 1,000 births. 13. It is of interest to note the causes of death in the remaining 112 deaths under one year. They are Pneumonia 32, Bronchitis 10, Influenza 8, Diarrhoea 12, other Digestive Diseases 7, Whooping Cough 4, Measles 2, Tuberculous diseases 4, Violence 4, and other defined diseases 29. Both Measles and Whooping Cough were particularly mild during the year under review, thus accounting for only 6 deaths under one year from these two diseases as compared with 16 in 1932. 14. Many of the deaths from Pneumonia and Bronchitis must be preventable, if greater care were exercised by parents in the management of infancy, likewise there should not be recorded tw’elve deaths from Diarrhoea if the utmost case were exercised in the preparation of the infant dietary. GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA. 15. PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICERS OF THE AUTHORITY.—A full list of officers was included in my report for 1932, and the following are the changes which have taken place during 1933 :— District Medical Officrs under the Poor Law Acts. Guardians Committee Area. District. Change of Officer. Date. Atherstone ... Polesworth Dr. C. A. Cowie vice Dr. W. Anderson. 31st Dec., 1933. Stratford-on-Avon Brailes & Shipston... Dr. A. P. Harris vice Dr. W. C. C. Easton. 31st Aug., 1933. Chipping Norton ... Dr. A. P. Harris vice Dr. W. C. C. Easton. 31st Aug., 1933. Warwick & Leam¬ ington. Public Vaccinators. District. Warwick Dr. H. S. Tibbits vice 25th Dec., Dr. H. Tibbits. (deceased). 1933. No. 34. Great Wolford ,, 35. Brailes and Cherington ,, 36. Shipston-on-Stour ...1 ,, 45. Long Compton ... ...j Dr. A. P. Harris vice j Dr. W. C. C. Easton. 15th Nov., 1933. ,, 1. Polesworth Dr. C. A. Cowie vice Dr. W. Anderson. 31st Dec., 1933. ,, 65. Warwick ... Health Visitors’. Dr. H. S. Tibbits vice Dr. H. Tibbits (deceased). 25th Dec., 1933. Superintendent. ... Miss F. M. Polden, S.R.N., , R.San.I. vice Miss M. S. Lowe, M.B.E. 1st Aug., 1933, County Midwives M. Hughes vice 1st Aug., 1933. M. Hague. A. I. Butler, appointed 20th November, 1933.