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Holborn 1896
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896
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By the Public Health Act of 1896, the Acts relating to quarantine
have been repealed, and further provision made with respect to epidemic,
endemic and infectious diseases.
By the new regulations of the Local Government Board, additional
and more stringent precautions against the introduction of cholera are
to be taken, and plague and yellow fever are now subject to the same
regulations.
A new English Life Table was during the year issued by the Registrar
General. This is founded on the Vital Statistics of England and
Wales for the decennium 1881-90. It is the third which has been
published, and it is worthy of remark that the successive tables bear
evidence to the enormous saving of life and health which have been
effected by the sanitary administration in this country.
The average life time of males and females, or the expectation of life at birth has been by the
| Males. | Females. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Life Table, 1838—54 | 39-91 vears. | 41.85 years. |
| 2nd „ 1871—80 | 41-35 „ | 44.62 „ |
| 3rd „ 1881—90 | 43-66 „ | 47.18 „ |
That is to say that since the period on which the first Life Table was
founded, the average life of males has been increased 3¾ years, and
of females 5⅓ years.
I thank the Members and Officers of the Board for their kindness,
courtesy and the co-operation that 1 have received; and the Board also,
for acknowiedging the excessive amount of work performed last year,
by granting me an additional honorarium of fifty guineas.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant.
W. A. BOND.