[Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashbourne U.D.C.

  • Ashbourne (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1941
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Credit: [Report 1941] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashbourne U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ASHBOURNE URBAN DISTRICT CPUNCI Annual Report of the Medical Off! Health for the year ended December 1941. rary To the Chairman Ashbourne Urban Gentlemen, and Members of the District Council. In the .Report for the year 1941 there certain restrictions and' limitations to be observed, and many particulars which have not changed during the year will again be omitted. The area of the district is 1,075 acres land and water. The number of inhabited houses at the end of the year' V'was 1554, no houses having been erected during the year 1941,, ' . The rateable value of the district is £31,191, and the sum produced by a penny rate is £124, • • . Vital Statistics. The number of Births in 1941 was 75, 40 male and 35 female, as compared with a total of 85 in 1940, and only 58 in 1939. There were 7 illegitimate births (3 male and 4 female), one less than in the previous year but 4 more than in 1939, and 5 more than in 1938. The number of Deaths in 1941 was 52, equally divided between males and females. For the previous throe years the number of deaths did not fall below 70. There were 18 deaths of persons over 70, of whom 7 were over 80. and 2 over 90. Infant Mortality. Four.children under the age of one year died in 1941, all of them, males, and. all legitimate. The' causes of death in the 4 children who'died in the Urban District of Ashbourne were given as Intra-cranial hemorrhage, whooping cough with pneumonia, spinabifida and dystocia (coroner's P,M. without Inquest) •I-art Dise ase was again the commonest cause of death, though only half the number there were in 1940. In 1941 there were 9 cases, 3 males and 6 females, and no deaths from any other disease of the circulatory system. am.glad to be able to report that the number of deaths from cancer, which was at its highest point in 1940, has fallen from 11 to 6 cases - 2 males and 4 females. There was only one death from Respiratory diseases - a male from pneumonia, as compared with 3 in 1940. Tuberculosis also was the cause of one death, but influenza caused 3. There was only one death from zymotic disease viz. a child from whooping cough, which is very satisfactory considering the number oi cases of whooping cough and measles which occurred in the district throughout the year. Infectious Diseases. There were 4 cases of scarlet fever during the y>..ar, one in August, 2 in the .same family in October, and one in November,. all mild and easily dealt with. There w-as one case of Paratyphoid in November occurring on the edge of the new aerodrome on Derby Road, a very mild case. But there were fairly extensive outbreaks of both measlc-s and whooping coup'h Measles had already begun*at the c-nd of 1940. There were 174 cases, the last of which occurred at the beginning of August. There had b^cn no epidemic of measles for several years, so that there were * a large number of susceptible children^ a large proportion of the cases occurred belov/ the age of 5,