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You will notice that in Chorley Sub-District alone has there been a
high Birth-rate; in Croston Sub-District the Birth-rate is slightly above
the rate for the whole of your District; whereas in Brindle, Leyland, and
Rivington the Birth-rate is considerably below the low rate obtaining
throughout the Rural District of Chorley.
Last year I was able to congratulate you upon the lowest Death-rate
on record in the Rural District of Chorley. I regret that I am not able to
give so favourable a report for 1907, the Death-rate being considerably
higher than in 1906, though still well below the average of the previous
decade.
The number of Deaths registered in your District in 1907 was two
hundred and ninty-five (295), of which one hundred and fifty-nine (159) were
Males, and one hundred and thirty-six (136) Females. The Death-rate upon
the same estimated population of 21,000 was 14.05 per thousand. In 1906
the Death-rate was only 12.74, only two hundred and sixty-five (265) Deaths
having been registered during that year.
The Death-rate throughout England and Wales in 1907 has been
estimated at 15.0 per thousand, and of the more rural districts, excluding
two hundred and eighteen towns, the rate was 14.7 per thousand.
You will notice that the Death-rate in your District, though higher
than last year, is not only decidedly less than that of the country at large,
but is also below the average of the rural districts with which your District
can be most appropriately compared.
From Table I. appended to this Report you will see that, though
the Death-rate of 1907 was higher than that of 1906, in only one other
year (1901) was there a lower Death-rate than that of 1907, and that the
rate of 1907 was nearly one per thousand lower than the average rate for
the previous ten years.
The increase in the number of Deaths in 1907, as compared with
1906, occurred in each of the Quarters of the year, except the second, in
which the number of Deaths was slightly below that of the corresponding
Quarter of 1906. This you will see in Table B, in which the Deaths of 1907
and the five preceding years are given in the Quarters in which they
occurred.