[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Knaresborough R.D.C.

  • Knaresborough (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Knaresborough R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the lung’s. There were 3 deaths in children under one year of age from this cause. These were probably due to feeding children on milk derived from cows suffering from tuberculosis. The number of deaths from Cancer was 7. This is Cancer, about the average number of deaths from this cause annually in the district. There were no deaths from Diarrhoea during the year. Diarrhoea. The death rate in the district from it has been very favour- able for the last few years. The leaflet I drew up some time ago, with a view to the prevention of this disease, is being distributed by the Registrars of Births. The number of Infectious Diseases notified during the Diseases year was 36, as compared with 58 last year. They were as Notified, follows:—Scarlet Fever, 20; Diphtheria, 7; Erysipelas, 4; Enteric Fever, 3 ; and Continued Fever, 2. The Scarlet Fever cases were less than half that of the previous year. Follifoot and Killinghall suffered most from it. Isolated cases occurred in several of the other parishes. Two deaths were due to it. The number of patients from the district treated in the hospital were 9. Scarlet Fever. There were 7 cases of Diphtheria, 2 of which proved Diphtheria, fatal. Six of these occurred in Killinghall and one in Knaresborough Outer. The use of Antitoxin during the last few years has been very beneficial in lowering the death rate of this disease. As its expense places it to a certain extent out of the reach of the poorer people, I think it would be to the benefit of the district if your Council provided it in such cases. There were only 3 year. cases of Enteric Fever during the Enteric Fever.