On This Day, 22 August 1918

Birmingham Daily Post 

Thursday 22 August 1918

HEALTH OF BIRMINGHAM.

The health of the city of Birmingham continues very good. The total number of deaths for the week ended August 17 was 143, against 140 in the corresponding week last year, giving a death-rate of 8.6 per 1,000, compared with 8.1. There were no deaths registered last week from enteric fever, smallpox, or scarlet fever, and only one each from measles and whooping cough. Influenza has almost disappeared, the deaths recorded from this complaint being only five. During last week there were 57 cases of measles notified, 25 of scarlet fever, and 15 of diphtheria. Patients in the city hospitals included 106 in the scarlet fever and 84 in the diphtheria wards.