[Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Leigh Borough.

  • Leigh (Lancashire, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1912
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    MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH’S REPORT FOR 1912. To the Chairman and Members of the Health Committee for the Borough of Leigh. Gentlemen, I have the honour to present for your consideration my report on the Health and Sanitation of the Borough of Leigh for the year ending December 31st, 1912. On the whole, I think the report is satisfactory compared with last year—there is a reduced Death-rate, a reduced Infant Mortality, a reduced Zymotic Death-rate, and a reduction in the number of cases of Infectious Diseases notified under the Act. The only unsatisfactory feature in the statistical part of the report is the fall in the Birth-rate ; this is not peculiar to Leigh. The Infantile Mortality figure is still too high and compares unfavourably with other similar towns. I have divided the report into Sections, in order that the work, which is now systematised in the Health Department, may be more conveniently discussed under the respective heading's. Details are given, with Tables and some diagrams, to point out, and make clear the chief Sanitary improvements or defects. The conversion of Privies, the Infectious Diseases, and the work done under the Housing Acts are discussed in detail, together with the general Sanitary Work of the Department. In the Section on the Notification of Births, I have incorporated the Health Visitor’s Report; and the Sanitary Inspector’s Report is incorporated in the section devoted to the General Sanitary Work. I have made observations where I have considered it necessary to do so, but the figures and tables given practically speak for them¬ selves.