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Urban District Council of Mitcham
HEALTH REPORT FOR 1932
To the Chairman and Councillors.
Miss Wilson and Gentlemen,
I have much pleasure in submitting to you my Annual Report
for 1932. This is the first report presented by me as your first fulltime
Medical Officer of Health.
On the whole the year has been a very satisfactory one from the
health point of view.
The population has increased by 2,870 persons.
The death rate for the year is 8.0 per 1,000, as compared
with 9.8 per 1,000 in 1931.
There has been a decrease in the birth rate, being 17.3 per
1,000 for 1932, as compared with 19.2 per 1,000 in 1931.
There were 288 notifications of infectious disease, as compared
with 242 received in 1931. The increase has been mainly in the
number of scarlet fever cases.
It is gratifying to observe that the maternal mortality rate is
lower, being 4.6 per 1,000 total births, as compared with 6.12 per
1,000 total births in 1931.
There has been an increase in the number of deaths of children
under two years of age from epidemic enteritis. This was partly due
to the very hot spell of weather experienced in August.