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Feltham Urban District Council.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
1 beg to submit my Annual Report for the year 1908.
During the year 155 Births have been registered, Boys 72, Girls 83, making a
Birth Rate of 26.2 on an estimated population of 5,900.
The number of Deaths registered was 75, which gives a Death Rate of 12.7 on the
estimated population, but as 9 persons belonging to the district died in various institutions
outside, the corrected Death Rate is 14.4
The number of illegitimate children born during the year was 4, one of which
died. The number of Inquests held being 4. The Mortuary recently erected on the
Council's Depot was used for the first time.
The deaths in the London County Council Industrial Schools, with a population
at the middle period of the year of 630, was 5.
The number of Infants dying under one year of age was 20, 9 of which were
registered as caused by diarrheal diseases. The Infant Mortality Rate works out at 129,
and the Zymotic Death Rate at 2.7.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The total number of infectious diseases notified during the year was 20, which was
distributed over 17 centres. Diphtheria 9, Erysipelas 6, Scarlet Fever 4, Puerperal
Fever 1.
One of the cases of Diphtheria was not discovered until Post Diphtheritic Paralysis
had set in, with fatal result. Two of the cases were connected with an outbreak in an
adjoining district. Although Diphtheria Antitoxin was used in the majority of cases it
was not supplied by the Council. I trust ere long that the Council may see fit to supply
both Antitoxin and pay the small fees in connection with Bacteriological examinations,,
so as to fall into line with other districts in the County of Middlesex. Considering our
position near the Metropolis, we have a very small proportion of infectious diseases that
are classed as notifiable, and in only three instances a second case being notified from an
infected area
ISOLATION HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION FOR GENERAL
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The enquiry held by the Middlesex County Council, under the Isolation Hospitals
Acts of 1893 and 1901, was held at the offices of the Staines Rural District Council in
July 1908, and it is not until this week (the middle of March) that the draft order has
come into the hands of the constituent authorities for their consideration.
There should be now no reason for delay in carrying out the necessary provision
for the isolation and treatment of notifiable infectious cases by the most up-to-date
method possible.