Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Quarterly report of the Medical Officer of Health. First quarter, 1903
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T able II.
Years. | Births. | Birth-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rate. | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age. | Deaths under 1 year to 1,000 Births. | Deaths from the Principal .Zymotic Diseases. | Total Zymotic Death-rate. | Influenza. | Cancer. | Phthsis. | Puerperal | |||||||||||||
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Totals. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and undefined Fevers. | Diarrhœal Diseases. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Death-rates. | Deaths. | Deaths in 1,000 births. | ||||||||
1893 | 2,492 | 30-48 | 1,597 | 19.53 | 403 | 161 | 134 | .. | 25 | 24 | 32 | 32 | .. | 9 | .. | 12 | 1.64 | 31 | 0.37 | 58 | 0.71 | 123 | 1.50 | 2 | 0 .80 |
1894 | 2,490 | 3014 | 1,613 | 19.52 | 313 | 125 | 231 | .. | 66 | 16 | 64 | 70 | .. | 8 | .. | 7 | 2.79 | 31 | 0.37 | 45 | 0.54 | 146 | 1.77 | 5 | 2.01 |
1895 | 2,618 | 31-35 | 1,936 | 23.18 | 353 | 134 | 106 | .. | 7 | 21 | 25 | 35 | ..1 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1.27 | 137 | 1.64 | 65 | 0.78 | 191 | 2.29 | 3 | 1.14 |
1896 | 2,467 | 2922 | 1,664 | 19.71 | 373 | 151 | 330 | .. | 170 | 10 | 56 | 76 | .. | 13 | 2 | 3 | 3.91 | 13 | 0.15 | 58 | 0.68 | 126 | 1.49 | 1 | 0.40 |
1897 | 2,570 | 30.48 | 1,421 | 16.85 | 296 | 115 | 122 | .. | 15 | 18 | 40 | 38 | .. | 7 | .. | 4 | 1.45 | 14 | 0.16 | 66 | 0.78 | 142 | 1.68 | 3 | 1.l6 |
1898 | 2,401 | 28.52 | 1,774 | 20.71 | 362 | 151 | 308 | .. | 183 | 10 | 41 | 58 | .. | 4 | 1 | 11 | 3.66 | 41 | 0.48 | 65 | 0.77 | 133 | 1.58 | 3 | 1.25 |
1899 | 2.493 | 29.65 | 1,681 | 19.99 | 308 | 123 | 131 | .. | 45 | 3 | 12 | 61 | .. | 9 | .. | 1 | 1.56 | 52 | 0.61 | 58 | 0.69 | 165 | 1.96 | 2 | 0.80 |
1900 | 2,475 | 29.47 | 1,819 | 21.66 | 326 | 132 | 132 | .. | 64 | 7 | 25 | 23 | .. | 9 | .. | 4 | 1.57 | 122 | 1.45 | 64 | 0.76 | 185 | 2.20 | 0 | •• |
1901 | 2.453 | 29.26 | 1,411 | 16.83 | 304 | 124 | 82 | .. | 7 | 1 | 17 | 41 | .. | 8 | 1 | 7 | 096 | 18 | 0.21 | 74 | 0.88 | 152 | 1.81 | 4 | 1.63 |
1902 | 2,378 | 28. 20 | 1,796 | 21.30 | 311 | 131 | 181 | 16 | 53 | 15 | 48 | 36 | .. | 9 | 1 | 3 | 214 | 45 | 0.53 | 92 | 1.09 | 153 | 1.81 | 2 | 073 |
Corrected Average. | 2,516 | 29.68 | 1,690 | 19.93 | 339 | 135 | 178 | 2 | 64 | 12 | 37 | 48 | .. | 8 | 1 | 6 | 2 13 | 51 | 0.59 | 65 | 0.76 | 153 | 1.80 | 2 | 0. 79 |
1903 | 2.264 | 26.70 | 1 383 | 16.31 | 329 | 145 | 170 | .. | 35 | 9 | 20 | 88 | .. | 7 | 1 | 10 | 2 00 | 30 | 0.35 | 90 | 106 | 108 | 1.27 | 3 | 1.32 |
Departure from Average. | — 252 | —298 | —307 | —3 62 | —10 | + 10 | —8 | —2 | —29 | —3 | —17 | + 0 | .. | —1 | .. | + 4 | —013 | —21 | —024 | + 25 | +0 30 | —45 | —053 | +1 | + 0.53 |
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient servant,
Medical Officer of Health.