[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnack R.D.C.

  • Barnack (Cambridgeshire). Rural District Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnack R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BARNACK RURAL DISTRICT. Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year, 193S. Public Health Officers of the Authority : Medical Officer of Health.—W. Anley Hawes, M.B., B.S., D.P.H., Lond., Part time. District Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator Under Poor Law.—W. Anley Hawes M.B., B.S., D.P.H., Lond. Sanitary Inspector Mr. C. Green, M.S.I.A., A.R., San. I. My Lord and Gentlemen, I herewith beg to submit my report for the year 1938. SECTION A. Area, 14,546 Acres. Total Population 2,340. No. of Inhabited Houses, 527 (including 35 at Wittering Aerodrome). Rateable Value, Sum represented by penny rate, £$(,. Social Condition.—The main industry is Agriculture. One factory for Electrical Equipment is situated on the outskirts of Stamford. No work injurious to health is performed. Total M. F. Legitimate Live Births. Illegitimate A^>- / . Still Births. Legitimate Deaths. S - 2-- I . 24 16 8 Death rate per 1000 population is 10.2 000 Deaths from puerperal sepsis Deaths from other puerperal causes. Nil. Death rate of Infants under one year of age :— All Infants per 1,000 live births Legitimate Infants per 1,000 legitimate live births Illegitimate Infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births Deaths from Measles (all ages) Deaths from Whooping-cough Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) Nil. Nil. Nil. 5'5' Corresponding Rates for England and Wales. Birth rate 15.i increase of .2 compared with 1937. Death rate 11.6 decrease of .8 compared with 1937. Infantile Mortality 53 decrease of 5 compared with 1937. There has been in the Birth Rate ot^-i compared with 1937. There as been a decrease in the Death Rate of 2.1 compared with 1937. The Infantile Mortality Rate has pc*x / rrp