[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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    roooint of loss than 0100 a Oar. Unfortunately, thin Act ctoon not provide for inspection but only or treatment of a very lin tod kind. To nun up* the State provides nodical examination ith iit treatment for ‘•■he first and roodioal troatmont without routine examination and supervision or the s’ooond period of lifo. Again, dental troatnont can bo provided for all children between ages of 5 and 14 years but not for raalo adults unless they are incurably insane, fleoblo-mindod, afflicted with venereal diseases with tuboroulosis. The oxnectant nether can be treated for dental trouble but the expectant father is rigidly debarred fron a life bonefit. It ia pro mined that a Ministry of Health will romody those absurdities which night have emanated from the pages of Gulliver1s*Travels” and not from the regulations of Government Departments. 12!FAITT HCrfiAhlTT. By rate of infant mortality in meant the ratio of the annual number of deaths among infants Under one year of age to every 100Q births. The ratio for each area and for the County as a whole in % • as follows DISTRICT I[0 OF DPATHS IP 17 Oity of Peterborough Rural District of Peterborough Rural District of Barnacl: ADOilHI STRATIV3 COUNT?. 90 11 4 65 RATF 84.3 -ei. i 148. 0 81.1' The infant mortality rate for the whole County in 61.1 per 1000 births as compared with 77.5 in 1910, 87.2 in 1915, 75.7 in 1°14, 08 in 1913 and 104 in 19IS. The highest rate ia again found in ih e Earoaok Rural District, whore of 28 children born as many an four died before reaching the ago of ono year. Tho lowest rate was again obtained in tho Peterborough Rural District. 50 children died in tho Oity of Peterborough, a rate of 84.3 and 05 in the v/ho|jo County, a rate of 81.1. In Dngland and V/aloo as a whole the infant mortality rate ’ as 97; in the 96 groat towns 104 and in tho 148 smaller towns, of which Peterborough in one, 95 per 1000 births. Thoro is a decided incroace in infant mortality throughout the whole Countr-*'• The principal Cannes of death among infants in 1917