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Sutton 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]
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TABLE I.
Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1903 and Previous Years.
| Year. | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Total Deaths Registered in the District. | Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Nonresidents registered in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Residents registered in Public Institutions beyond the District. | Nett Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number. | Rate.* | Under 1 Year of Age. | At all Ages. | |||||||||
| Number. | Rate per 1,000 Births registered | Number. | Rate.* | Number. | Rate.* | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1893 | 14,600 | 303 | 24.0 | 36 | 119 | 153 | 12.1 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 150 | 11.9 |
| 1894 | 15,000 | 317 | 24.4 | 28 | 88 | 127 | 9.8 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 122 | 9.4 |
| 1895 | 15,400 | 319 | 23.8 | 22 | 69 | 128 | 9.5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 140 | 10.4 |
| 1896 | 15,800 | 324 | 23.4 | 35 | 108 | 133 | 9.6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 146 | 10.6 |
| 1897 | 16,000 | 317 | 22.5 | 44 | 139 | 172 | 12.3 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 184 | 13.2 |
| 1898 | 16,400 | 324 | 22.4 | 44 | 136 | 160 | 11.2 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 175 | 12.3 |
| 1899 | 16,700 | 366 | 24.8 | 51 | 139 | 160 | 10.9 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 177 | 12.0 |
| 1900 | 17,000 | 380 | 25.0 | 31 | 81 | 177 | 11.6 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 190 | 12.6 |
| 1901 | 17,310 | 367 | 23.5 | 43 | 117 | 175 | 11.2 | 8 | 4 | 20 | 191 | 12.2 |
| 1902 | 17,638 | 364 | 22.9 | 40 | 109 | 171 | 10.7 | 14 | 5 | 29 | 195 | 12.2 |
| Averages for years 1893-1902. | 16,184 | 338 | 23.6 | 37 | 110 | 155 | 10.8 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 167 | 11.6 |
| 1903 | 17,168 | 388 | 23.9 | 32 | 82 | 131 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 22 | 150 | 9.2 |
*Rates in Columns 4, 8, and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated population, excluding South
Metropolitan District Schools and Metropolitan Asylums Board School, 968 at
Census taken Midsummer, 1903.
Institutions within the District receiving sick and infirm persons from outside the District—
The above Schools and Sutton Hospital.
Institutions outside the District receiving sick and infirm persons from the District—
Ensom Workhouse. Joint Isolation Hospital, and Brookwood Asylum.
Area of District in acres
(exclusive of area
covered by water).
1836
Total population at all ages 17,224
Number of inhabited houses 2,976
Average number of persons per house 5.7
At
Census
of 1901.
Table II.—Showing the Sickness recorded in the district from the undermentioned Zymotic Diseases in each month of the year 1903, and in the ten preceding years.
| 1903. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Membranous Croup. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | Oases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | |
| January | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| February | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| March | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| April | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| May | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| June | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| July | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| August | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| September | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| October | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| November | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| December | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Total in 1903 | 21 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Total in 1902 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 31 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | ||||
| Total in 1901 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 12 | ||||
| Total in 1900 | 127 | 78 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | ||||
| Total in 1899 | 129 | 84 | 38 | 32 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Total in 1898 | 59 | 44 | 60 | 46 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Total in 1897 | 28 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Total in 1896 | 42 | 33 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Total in 1895 | 20 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| Total in 1894 | 35 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Total in 1893 | 4 | 2 | 71 | 43 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 13 |