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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER of HEALTH.
Clattern House,
January, 1898.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my fifth
annual report, and I shall take this opportunity to
compare the average of the first four years with the
year immediately passed, and also with other
statistics.
The population to the middle of 1898 is
estimated to be 32,516.
The birth rate is 29'06 per 1,000 per annum.
The male births numbered 490, and the female 455.
The highest number of births in any one month was
91 in the month of November, and the lowest 58, in
September.
The average for the previous four years is 30.3
per 1,000 per annum.
The death rate is 15.2 per 1,000 per annum,
and is lower than the average of the previous four
years, 15.8; whilst the death rate for England and
Wales is 18.7 per 1,000 per annum.
This is very satisfactory as far as it goes, but it
behoves us as a sanitary authority to endeavour to
reduce the liability to sickness and so prevent the
occurrence of epidemics that come, from time to time,