[Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Basingstoke R.D.C.

Basingstoke (England). Rural District Council.

Date:: 1912

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Credit: [Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Basingstoke R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Of these 20 deaths 13 were attributable to premature birth or prenatal malformation or weakness. Only one infant was certified as dying of diarrhoea. Table III. shows that out of the 157 deaths tabulated 78 were at the age of 65 and upwards. A large number of these are returned as dying from senile decay, and many were over 80. Twenty are accounted for as under one year. This leaves 59. There were 11 deaths of children between 1 year and 15 years, of these pneumonia claimed 4, scarlet fever 1, pulmonary tuberculosis 1, appendicitis 1, violent death from accident 1, and whooping cough 1. This shows that there was not much serious disease among the children, but does not compare with 1911, when there were only 3 deaths in this period. Cancer or other malignant disease accounted for 12 deaths, 18 were recorded in 1911. Pulmonary tuberculosis accounted for 7, as against 8 in 1911. Other tuberculous diseases caused 5 deaths. There were 5 deaths from accident, and 1 suicide, and 1 infant was suffocated from overlying. 25 deaths were reported from heart disease, among these were many certi¬ fied secondarily from other complaints, of which the fact of having a weak heart determined a fatal event. Housing and Toum Planning Act, 1909. The inspection of cottages in the District is being steadily gone on with. This inspection was begun in 1911,