[Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Huddersfield County Borough.

  • Huddersfield (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1911
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Credit: [Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Huddersfield County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deaths at different age periods, expressed in percentages of the total deaths: — TABLE II. Aged under 1 year ,, 1 to 2 years ,, 2 to 5 years ,, 5 to 15 years ,, 15 to 25 years ,, 25 to 45 years ,, 45 to 65 years ,, 65 and over 17.19 4.04 3.85 3.67 3.67 11.80 26.79 28.99 Deaths in Public Institutions. of persons resident in the Borough. • In the Sanatorium for Infectious Diseases 30 deaths occurred. In the Huddersfield Boyal Infirmary... 79 ,, ,, In the Nursing Home ... ... ... 4 ,, ,, In the Poor Law Workhouses ... ... Ill ,, ,, In the West Riding Lunatic Asylums 30 ,, ,, Infantile Mortality. The rate of mortality among infants under one year of age during 1911 shows an increase of 33 on the figure for last year. Thus per 1,000 children born during 1910 the deaths numbered 99. During 1911 the figure was 132. This increase was practically accounted for by the deaths from diarrhoea! diseases, which jumped from 23 in 1910, to 79 in 1911, owing to the phenomenal meteorological conditions which prevailed during the summer. This bears out the statement made in my annual report of last year to the effect that given unfavourable meteorological conditions the infant mortality rate would increase.