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1895
(year o[f
Death-Rates Dr. Priestley's 1924
Appointment)
General death-rate 19.5 12.5
Zymotic death-rate 2.6 0.6
Measles death-rate . 0.53 0.28
Whooping Cough death-rate. 0.46 0.07
Diarrhceal death-rate.. 0.90 0.07
Typhoid Fever death-rate ... 0.09 0.00
Tuberculosis (all forms) death rate 2.2 1.1
Tuberculosis (Phthisis or Consumption)
death-rate 1.6 0.9
Diphtheria death-rate 0.36 0.16
Scarlet Fever death rate 0.18 0.03
The Inner and Outer Wards or Districts vary as follow :
Inner Wards or Districts—
General rate 26.5 13.5
Zymotic rate 4.4 1.1
Outer Wards or Districts—
General rate 16.6 11.8
Zymotic rate 1.7 0.3
N.B.—All death-rates are corrected and are expressed in
terms per thousand of the population (estimated to the
middles of the years.
Infantile mortality (corrected) 152.0 S° S
per 1,000 registered births.
I have, again, to put on record the valuable work of the Male Sanitary
Inspectors (District and Special Inspectors), the Female Inspectors
and the Health Visitors, the staffs of the Central and Branch Tuberculosis
Dispensaries, the Milk Dep6t, and the Disinfecting Department,
and, last but not least, the Clerical Staff.
My personal thanks, are also again due to the chiefs of Departments,
and to the members of the Maternity and Child Welfare and
Public Health Committees, and of the Council generally, for assistance
readily given at all times.
I am, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY,
Medical Officer of Health and Chief Executive
Tuberculosis Officer..