[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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    To the Chairman and Members of the Health Committee of the County Borough of Huddersfield. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have the pleasure to submit herewith the 44th Annual Report on the work of the Public Health Department of the Borough. Since the census of 1901 the County Borough of Huddersfield has been to some extent under a cloud, because in that year the census revealed the disappointing faet that the population of the Borough wTasi declining, and consequently for 10 years after then all estimates of populationsi and mortality rates were based on this assumption. But for so long back as 1902, I have been of the belief that the population of the town was not decreasing, but on the contrary increasing, and a reference to my last nine annual reports will show the facts upon which I based my belief. It is, of course, now common knowledge that the census taken in the early part of 1911 fully justified my opinion. All the mortality rates for the past ten years had been calculated on erroneous figures which had an unfavourable effect on the rates for the Borough. These figures have all been adjusted in the present report, but I would again urge the great importance of instituting a quinquennial census. During 1911 2,122 births were registered in the Borough, equal to a rate of 19.69. The number of marriages solemnized during the year was 971, equal to a rate of 8.98. The death rate for 1911 was 15.17, compared with 14.76 in 1910, 14.64 in 1909, and 15.54 in 1908. The zymotic death rate was 1.83, compared with 1.00 the corresponding period last year. The rate during the ten years 1901 to 1910, 1.29 per 1,000.