[Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcestershire / County of Worcester County Council.

  • Worcestershire (England). County Council.
Date:
1902
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Credit: [Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, Worcestershire / County of Worcester County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE VII. Districts. 1902 1901 1900 1899 1898 1897 1896 1895 1894 1893 Urban (13) Death Rate* 0’32 009 •10 •07 •11 •12 •06 •06 •05 •10 Cases - 1787 683 550 43i 747 673 623 464 581 548 Deaths 66 19 21 13 22 17 8 8 6 11 Hospital Cases - 1074 376 279 252 269 155 161 105 241 183 ,, Deaths - 24 3 4 5 9 4 “ • 4 12 Rural (17) Death Rate* 0-16 O'lO •01 •08 •11 •13 •14 17 •10 •10 Cases - 850 598 299 579 1022 1074 1470 1460 957 1148 Deaths 27 17 2 14 17 26 28 34 23 i7 Hospital Cases - 572 335 153 298 468 56i 714 357 3°3 462 ,, Deaths- 17 3 I 6 3 12 8 6 6 3 Administrative Death Rate* 0-25 O'lO •06 •07 •11 •12 •11 •13 •10 •10 County (30) Cases - 2637 1281 849 1010 1769 1747 2093 1924 1538 1696 Deaths 93 37 24 27 39 43 36 42 29 28 Hospital Cases - 1646 711 432 55o 737 716 875 462 544 645 ,, Deaths- 4i 6 5 11 12 16 8 6 10 IS England and Wales - Death Kate* 0-15 0-13 •12 •12 •11 *14 •18 •14 *10 •20 * Per 1,000 of population. From this it is obvious that more cases of Scarlatina were notified in 1902 than in either of the 9 preceding years. Table V. shows that of the 2,637 cases reported last year rather less than half (1,042) appeared in King’s Norton and Oldbury Urban Districts. The mortality last year was also higher than usual, and considerably exceeded that of England and Wales. The Death-rate in the Urban Districts collectively (0.32) was double that of the Rural Districts collectively (0*16). Table V. shows that the disease was prevalent in Bromsgrove, Evesham, Kidderminster, King's Norton, Eye, Oldbury, Redditch and Stourbridge Urban, and in Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Halesowen, Kidderminster, Martley, Pershore, Tenbury, Upton, and Yardley Rural Districts. • Discussing the Bromsgrove Urban outbreak Dr. Kidd observes :— “We have experienced during the year an epidemic of Scarlet “Fever, exceeding in extent anything of which I can find a “record. . . . We had not had an epidemic since “1897. ... So that a new generation of susceptible “children had grown up, and there was every material for an “ extensive outbreak. . . . One cause of the continued