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While reporting on this aspect of the work during 1941,
it is fitting that record should be made of the closer co-operaticn
with the School Medical Service which resulted from this work, and
which has continued since. One would wish to take this
opportunity not only of expressing one's appreciation of the
assistance rendered by the staff of the Public Health Department
throughout the year, and particularly that of the Senior Health
Visitor and Sanitary Inspector in preparing this report, but also
of expressing thanks for the co-opration of the staffs of theCounty
Health and Education Departments, the General Practitioners
ana the personnel of the Civil Defence Casualty Services. One
of the good results of war-time conditions has been a closer
linking up of the agencies sharing the responsibility for the
health of the District which tendency it is hoped will continue
in the future.
During 1941 the responsibility for the local Ambulance
Service passed oficially to the Medical Officer of Health, while
more recently permission has been received to utilise other
Civil Defence Services in the Public Health activities of the
Council. locally willing assistance has always been forthcoming
for such service and this report would be incomplete without
appreciative reference not only to the ambulance personnel but to
those members of the Civil Defence Casualty Services who have
assisted in many ways, including the Diphtheria Immunisation
campaign and the conveyance of midwives, in hospital work and
the blood transfusion service, and more recently in connection
with the- Day Nurseries and the treatment of Scabies.
May all the self-sacrificing efforts of the present
augur well for the post-war era.
I am, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
F. R. EDBR00KE.
Medical Officer of Health.
November. 1942.
STATISTICS.
Area (in acres) 11,182.
Number of occupied houses, December, 1941 15,500.
Number of occupied houses, 1931 9,533.
Rateable Value, December, 1941 £741,754.
Sum represented by a penny rate £2,849.
Birth Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 12.6
Still Birth Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 32.6
Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 11.6
Death Rate from Puerperd causes per 1,000 (live and still)
births:-
Puerperal and post abortive sepsis 1.68
Other Puerperal causes Nil.
Death Rates of Infants under one year of age:-
All infants per 1,000 live births 52
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate births 46.
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate births 151
Deaths from Measles (all ages) Nil.
Deaths from Whooping Cough (All ages) 2.
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 2.