[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough.

  • Peterborough (England). County Council.
Date:
1917
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Credit: [Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, County of the Soke of Peterborough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEATH RATE. 01 ty of Peterborough. To of booths. 45 f> Rural District, of Peterborough M 111 Rural Dtrrfcriot of Barnaol;. 85 ADiIT7TT 3TRATTTT 90UFTY. n 506 I'.ato n f? ir IP 15.0 10.5 10.9 * The total nunbor of deaths in the a»lnini0,trativo county was 586, giving a nett death .rate of 12.9. Last '-ear there were 614 deaths, the rato being 15.5 nor 1000 of the population. In England and Va&os as a whole the death rato was 14.4 per 1000 of the population; in Uie 96 great towns 14,6 and in the 148 smaller towns, of which Peterborough is one, 15.8. Tho highest death rato oaounred in the Peterborough Rural District and the lowest in the Barnacl: area. T e principal causes of death wore - organic heart disease 55, bronchitis 55, cancer 54, pul non. cry tuberculosis 48, other forms of tuberculosis 85, congenital debility 51, pn junonia (all forms) 19, Nephritis and fright's D soaso 15. Eight deaths were duo to violence and five to suicide. The number of deaths duo to heart disease and bronchitis is n towerthy and it is to he remarked that as many an So of 55 occurred in persons under 45 years of age. Again, 11 of the 55 deaths duo to broughttis and 11 of tho 19 due to pneumonia occurred in youQgpersons of a like ago. Tho serious question o'* r cardiac and respiratory dlsoasos seems never to havo interested the Looal Government Board. The cause of these diseases is much better known than those which destroy infant life and I can-ct heir > • thinking that p. campaign directed to tho prevention and treatment of those ailments would yield a far bettor return than that directed to the ^reservation of infant life. That citizens of distinction should ouocunb in the height of their usefulness to cardiac, respirator and renal diseases, which are to a g:-eat ..xtont prevontablo, is one of the ndst cogent arguments for the compulsory examination of all adults. At *resant, nodical inspection is limited to woung porsons between tho age3 of 5 and 14, the healthiest period of lifo, but even then treatment is not enforced. An interregnum of two '--ears onerues vhero no nodical supervision As at present provided, although tho Few Education Act of 1918 will, within tho uoxt seven yoa.ro, obviate this difficulty. At the age of 16 tho Insurance Aot provides for males and females in (3)