[Report 1896] / Fourth Quarter, Medical Officer of Health, Huddersfield County Borough.

  • Huddersfield (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Fourth Quarter, Medical Officer of Health, Huddersfield County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of 1895, and 134 deaths from these diseases during this past quarter. The number of deaths in the Infirmary also is noticeable 22 as against 12 for the corresponding period last year. Twenty deaths are due to some form of malignant disease or other, and 47 are ascribed to phthisis. The death-rate in the 33 large English towns during the period under notice was 19'08 per 1,000. The death-rates in the various districts ranged in round figures from 13 in Dalton and Lindley to 19*5 per 1,000 in Fartown. Amongst the 443 deaths registered there were 98 children under one year of age, equal to a mortality rate of 170 per 1,000 births, whilst the rate was 156 per 1,000 births in the previous corresponding period. Our position relative to the 33 large English towns is shewn as follows 1890. DEATHS PER MILLION IN THE FOURTH QUARTER. Smallpox. - - Measles. Scarlet | Fever. 1 Diphtheria Whooping Cough. 1 Fever. Diarrhoea. All Seven. Thirty-three large towns, 1896.... • • 340 252 408 287 229 219 1735 Huddersfield, 1896 9 9 40 80 160 1038 160 80 1558 The seven infectious diseases are credited with 39 deaths as follows :—Measles 1, scarle fever 2, diphtheria 4, whooping cough 26, typhoid fever 4, diarrhoea 2, representing a mortality of 1-56 per 1,000, against 1*49 last year. The zymotic death-rate of the 33 large English towns being 1 73 per 1,000. The mortality amongst cases of whooping cough is increasing by rapid strides. During the second and third quarters of this year, there were 13 deaths, in each ascribed to whooping cough, but this quarter the number has exactly doubled, and is just twice as many as all the other deaths from the infectious diseases put together.