[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Sandwich Borough & Port.

  • Sandwich (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Sandwich Borough & Port. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BOROUGH OF SAIWIGH 1968. Mr, Mayor, Ladios and GontlGmon, I havG tho honour to present the following report on the year 1958. The Borough remains unchanged in area, but tho Richborough part of the district changes rapidly in character to a developing hive of industry. The mid-year population of 5^350 gained 63 by births and lost 64 by deaths; the other 199 fall in the population therefore representing a move away of some service population, Tho birth rate of 14*5 par 1,000 population is below tho national birth rate of l6,4j while the death rate of 14*7 per 1,000 population is above the national death rate of 11,7, However one must correct for tho slight preponderance of elderly persons in the population and these corrected figures give a birth rate of l6,7 and a death rate of 12,9, a much better comparis Further statistical detail follows later in the report. Infectious Diseases. The incidence of notifiable infectious disease was low. It was not a Measles year and of the 7 cases notified 5 occurred in tho summer months« There were 5 cases of Scarlet Fever all between the ages of 4 and 9 years o It is the usual experience in other than epidemic periods that this haemolytic streptococoal manifestation shows itself in the Primary School ago groups. Only one case of Scarlet Fever was admitted to hospital. One case of infectious encephalitis occurred, unfortunately fatal, due to a virus generally found in monkeys. Tuberculosis was responsible for nearly one third of the notifiable diseases reported, i.o,, 2 pulmonary cases and 4 non- pulmonary cases. These cases wore all admitted to hospital except for 1 non-pulmonary case. In addition one death from pulmonary tuberculosis was recorded in a person who had not boon notified as suffering from the disease.