[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Andover Borough.

  • Andover (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Andover Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LONGEVITY.—Certainly when the table given below is examined it speaks well for your district as a residential one favourable to the prolongation of life. Here we have 106 deaths for the year 1910, and no less than 40 of them are beyond the allotted span, and as there were also 14 children under one year of age this leaves but 52 to represent the deaths between one year of age and 70, that is, between the very young and the very old. The oldest was 96 years. 70 to 80 years, 23 ; 80 to 90 years, 14 ; 90 to 100 years, 3. INFANTILE MORTALITY.—During the year 14 infants died under one year of age, two more than last year. This gives an infantile mortality of 88.7 per 1000 births registered. The causes of death amongst infants were as follows:—Whooping Cough 2, Enteritis 1, Premature Births 3, Congenital Defects 1, .Marasmus 3, Tubercular Meningitis 1, other Disease 1, Pneu- monia 2. Sixdeaths occurred in the first four weeks of life, and eight infants were over the age of one month. One infant was illegitimate. ZYMOTIC DEATH RATE.—The deaths from zymotic dis- eases were as follows:—Whooping Cough 3, Enteric Fever 1, Diphtheria 1, giving a death rate of 0.6 per 1000. This compares most favourably with 1.26 for England and Wales. CANCER DEATH RATE. Four deaths were registered as due to this disease, giving a death rate of 0.3. TUBERCULOSIS DEATH RATE.—Ten cases in all regis- tered, a death rate of 1.4 per 1000. OTHER RESPIRATORY DISEASES.—There were 9 deaths from Bronchitis, 5 from Pneumonia, and 1 other Diseases of Respiratory Organs, a death rate of 2.05 per 1000. PREVALENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. SCARLET FEVER.—Three cases of this disease were noti- fied. One was a child who returned from school at Bourne-