[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council.

  • Northamptonshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1918
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Credit: [Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Northamptonshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tuberculosis Mortality.—^The total number of cases actually notified in the County during the year 1918 was 444 (inclusive of nine members of the military or naval forces )y of these cases 264 were in the Combined Urban Districts, and 180 in the Combined Rural Districts. The total number of deaths among civilians registered in the Administrative County as due to Tuberculosis during the year 1918 was 289, and of these, 158 belonged to the Com¬ bined Urban Districts, and 131 to the Combined Rural Districts. The average rate for Phthisis for the five years 1908-1912 was 0.91 per 1,000 of the population, and for the five years 1913-1917 (inclusive of other forms of Tuberculosis from the year 1913) 1.28 per 1,000 of the population ; the rate now for all Tuberculous disease mortality during the year 1918 is 1.50 per 1,000 of the population as against 1.49 per 1,000 for each of the years 1916 and 1917. The following table shows the number of deaths from Tuberculosis, and the rates per 1,000 of the population for the whole Administrative County' in the ten years 1909- 1918 Area. Tubercu¬ losis, 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 Adminis- No. of Deaths. 185 190 204 197 ♦ 250 * 228 261 * 302 * 284 * 289 trative County Rate per 1,000 0.86 0.89 0.95 0.91 1.15 1.05 1.23 1.49 1.40 1.50 ♦ These columns include deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis, and are not confined to Pulmonary Tuberculosis as in previous years. In accordance with the request of the Local Government Board I have furnished them with a Summary of the noti¬ fications under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912, for the period 30th December, 1917, to 28th December, 1918. This Summary is included, therefore, in this Report. The Tuberculosis death-rate varied in the Urban Districts from 0.50 per 1,000 of the population in the Oundle District to 2.65 in the Raunds District. In the Rural Districts the