Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health and the School Medical Officer for the year 1909 / by J. H. Crocker.

  • Richmond upon Thames (London, England). Council.
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health and the School Medical Officer for the year 1909 / by J. H. Crocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    15/92 (page 15)
    The ladies of the above-named Society have done excellent work in the Borough throughout the year. The homes of 141 infants, below one year of age, were visited weekly, most of them several times, and advice given. Of these 141 children 79 were males and 62 were females. One hundred and nine of these were breast fed and 32 were artificially fed. One hundred and thirty-six of the children were alive at the end of the year and five had died. Four of the deaths occurred in children who were artificially fed ; diarrhoea and sickness being the chief cause of death. The one breast fed child which died was seven months of age at the time of death : the death was due to convulsions from teething. I have been favoured with a perusal of the details reported to the Society in connection with every case visited, and I desire to express my appreciation of the excellent results obtained. The total number of deaths attributed to this Tuberculosis. disease was 37, being 9 per cent, of the total deaths as compared with 8*7 per cent, for the year 1908, 1F3 per cent, for 1907, 11*9 per cent, for 1906, 8 per cent, for 1905, and 15 per cent, for 1904, This is a rate of 1 per 1,000 of the population as compared with 1*3 for 1907, 1*3 for 1906, 1 for 1905, and 1*8 for 1904. 76 deaths were registered as due to diseases Respiratory of the chest other than phthisis. This gives a Disease. mortality of 2T per 1,000 of the population as compared with 2.0 for 1908, F7 for 1907, 1*3 for 1906, F9 for 1905, and 1*6 for 1904. Inquests. There were 46 inquests held in the Borough during the year.