[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough.

Burton upon Trent (England). County Borough Council.

Date:: 1904

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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Burton-upon-Trent County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Health Office, Town Hall, Burton-upon-Trent, 3rd April, 1906. TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE. Gentlemen, 1 have the honour to submit to you my First Annual Report, being the report on the health of the County Borough of Burton-upon-Trent for the year 1904. The principal feature of the year was the decrease in the number of notifiable infectious diseases—a number lower than in any previous year. This favourable feature, however, was counterbalanced by a severe epidemic of whooping cough and an epidemic of measles. The death rate was much higher thau the record established in the previous year, but was slightly under the average for the Borough, and was lower than the rate in the Country as a whole. The birth rate continues to decrease. The important subject of Cancer receives detailed consideration.