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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT.
Gentlemen,
I beg to submit to you my Annual Report for the
year ending December, 31st, 1894.
During the year under consideration the number of births in
the St. Saviour sub-district amounted to 368, of which 197 were
males and 171 females. In the Christchurch sub-district the
total number was 402, 206 being males and 196 females. In the
combined districts the grand total thus became 770, of which 403
were males and 367 females.
During the same period the number of deaths registered in
the St. Saviour sub-district was 192, in the Christchurch subdistrict
186, while 197 deaths occurred outside the district of
persons belonging thereto, making a total of 575 in all. From
this number 24 must be deducted, being the number of deaths
occurring within the district of persons not belonging to it, leaving
551 as the corrected total. The death-rate, therefore, for the
combined districts, having an estimated joint population of
24,609, is 22.43 per 1,000, or a corrected death-rate of 23.48 per
1,000. This, however, hardly presents a just view of the deathrate,
as in 38 cases the person whose death was recorded came
from a common lodging-house, and probably spent but a few days
in the district before being sent to the Infirmary. If these cases
were deducted the death-rate would be only 20.82 per 1,000 or a
corrected death-rate of 21.78 per 1,000.
Tabulating these deaths with regard to age it will be found
that 114 died under the age of one year, 124 between the ages of
one and five years, 23 between the ages of five and 15 years, 25
between the ages of 15 and 25 years, 18 between the ages of 25
and 65 years, and 77 of 65 years upwards.