[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough.

  • Chesterfield (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infectious Diseases.—The notified cases were 174 in number as compared with an average in the previous ten years of 211, and the deaths from them 10 as compared with the average 16. The deaths from the non-notifiable epidemic diseases were 57, as compared with the decennial average 64. These figures, on an increasing population, may be con- sidered fairly satisfactory when it is remembered that deaths from enteritis of children under one year are now included among those from Diarrhoea. Small-pox.—No case occurred, for the third year in succession. A case at the Union Workhouse was reported at the end of the year and the patient removed to the Newbold Small-pox Hospital, but it proved to be one of severe chicken-pox. Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.— Houses infected 36, cases 39, deaths 2. The num- ber of cases was above the decennial average 25 and the largest since 1903, when there were 41. The mortality was less than half the average. The case mortality was 5 per cent, as compared with the average 16. The decreasing mortality must be ascribed in large part to the increasing use of diphtheria antitoxin serum for both curative and prophylactic purposes.