Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year ending 25th March 1897
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TABLE II.
Showing the Annual Birth-rate, Death-rate, Death-rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths for the Year 1896 and Ten Years Preceding.
In Year. | Birth-rate per 1,000 of the Population. | Death-rate per 1,000 of the Population. | Deaths of Children under 1 year per 1,000 of Registered Births. | Deaths of Children under 1 year per 1,000 of total Deaths. | Deaths of Children under 5 years per 1,000 of total Deaths. | Deaths in Public Institutions inside the District per 1,000 of total Deaths. |
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1896 | 27.8 | 19.1 | 152 | 220 | 340 | 216 |
1895 | 28.1 | 21.3 | 165 | 217 | 320 | 152 |
1894 | 26.8 | 18.7 | 134 | 193 | 331 | 244 |
1893 | 27.4 | 23.2 | 141 | 167 | 284 | 191 |
1892 | 28.3 | 23.1 | 159 | 195 | 324 | 149 |
1891 | 28.8 | 27.4 | 185 | 195 | 322 | 225 |
1890 | 26.0 | 22.8 | 160 | 183 | 288 | 190 |
1889 | 26.3 | 19.9 | 147 | 194 | 327 | 120 |
1888 | 26.6 | ] 8.7 | 155 | 220 | 324 | 174 |
1887 | 26.7 | 23. 0 | 178 | 207 | 345 | 154 |
1886 | 28.4 | 22.9 | 164 | 204 | 359 | 160 |
Average of 10 to years—1886 to 1895. | 27.3 | 22.1 | 158 | 197 | 322 | 175 |