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To the Chairman and Members of the
TWICKENHAM URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF
HEALTH, 1896.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Thirteenth Annual Report
as to the Health and Sanitary condition of the Parish of Twickenham. The Report
will embrace the vital statistics of the year 1896, which terminated on December
31st, and a summary of the measures taken for preventing the devolopment and
dissemination of disease.
The forms supplied by the Local Government Board (Tables A and B)
accompany ; the former, Table A, is that of the deaths ; the latter, Table B, that
of the population, births, and new cases of infectious sickness, these tables are
both classified according to diseases, ages and localities.
Appended also to this Report are the forms supplied by the Middlesex
County Council ; Table C (i., ii., iii., iv.) An analysis of the information required
and the sanitary work accomplished during the year will be embodied in the text of
this Report, under the respective headings, dealing with the various details as set
forth in the columns of the above Table.
During the past year I am happy to record a large decrease, amounting to
32, in the number of deaths from all causes, as compared with 1895. There has
however, been an increase, amounting to seven, mainly attributable to deaths from
Whooping Cough, in the number of deaths from the Zymotic Diseases. The death rate
for the present year is 11.27 per 1,000, and the mean for the past five years is 13'4
per 1,000. With the exception of an outbreak of Measles in the Whitton district
in the early part of the year there has been no prevalence of disease in more than
usual proportions. Speaking of the health generally of the parish, the year on the
whole may be considered above the average.
The vital statistics for the year are calculated upon an estimated population
of 18,000.
The total number of deaths for 1896 was 203, which is at the average rate
of 11.27 per 1,000.
This number includes 10 at Whitton, eight at St. John's Hospital, one at
the Powder Mills, and one at the Military Quarters at Whitton.
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