[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Brackley Borough.

  • Brackley (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Brackley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The birth-rate of 15.2 per 1,000 of the population is higher by 2.0 than the rate for the year 1944, and is lower by 0.9 than the rate for England and Wales for the year under review. Total Male Female Rate per 1000 live births. Eng. & Brackley Wales Deaths of Infants, under I year :— Legitimate i — I 27.0 46.0 Illegitimate — — — — — Deaths from all causes 31 20 II Death Rate 12.8 II.4 The registered causes of death were as follows — Male Female Total Typhoid and parat. fevers — — — Cerebro-spinal fever .— — — Scarlet Fever — — .— Whooping Cough ,— .— — Diphtheria ■— .— .— Tuberculosis of Respir. System ... — — — Other forms of tuberculosis — I I Syphilitic diseases I ■— I Measles — .— — Influenza — — — Acute poliomyelitis and polio-enceph. _ Acute infectious enceph. — — — Cancer of buc. cav. and oesoph. I — 1 Cancer of stomach and duodenum — I I Cancer of breast .—. .— — Cancer of all other sites 3 I 4 Diabetes — Intracranial vascular lesions 2 I 3 Heart disease 6 2 8 Other diseases of circ. system ... — — ■— Bronchitis .— I I Pneumonia .— .— ,— Other resp. diseases — — — Ulcer of stomach or duodenum... — — — Diarrhoea under 2 years — .— — Appendicitis — — — Other digestive diseases I I 2 Nephritis I ■— I Puerperal and post, abort, sepsis — — .— Other maternal causes — .— — Premature birth — » — — Congenital mal. birth inj. infant dis. Suicide .— — Road traffic accidents — Other violent causes I — I All other causes 4 3 7 Total 20 11 31