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COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON.
ANNUAL REPORT
THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
AND
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER
For the Year 1943.
OSCAR M. HOLDEN, G.M., M.D., D.P.H.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Public Health Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Sixteenth Annual Report,
being the forty-fourth of the series dealing with the work of the
Public Health Department and School Medical Services and
including the report on Mayday Hospital.
The report retains the abbreviated form followed last year
necessitated by the circumstances of war.
The Birth-rate for the year was 18.4 per 1,000, an increase
of 0.1 per 1,000 over 1942.
The Death-rate was 13.1, an increase of 0.8 per 1,000 of the
population.
The Infantile Mortality rate was 37 per 1,000 live births;
this was 2 per 1,000 lower than 1942.
These rates can be stated to be very satisfactory, especially
when the fact that this country had been at war for 4 years is
remembered. The restrictions and rationing of foodstuffs does
not appear to have had any detrimental effect upon the rate of
death.