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Malden and Coombe 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Malden and Coombe]
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The population turned out to be 1168.
I am not able to give you any information as to
Sanitary Work in the two newly added Wards before July
1st, when we became a combined district, but I have been
enabled to obtain the births and deaths for the whole year.
The number of births for your whole and combined
district has been 113, giving a birth rate of 20.l per thousand,
53 were boys and 60 girls.
59 deaths have been registered, giving a death rate of
10.49 per thousand. Of these deaths 30 were males, and
29 females.
I append a table showing how these are distributed in the different Wards, together with the acreage, population, persons per acre, and per house, and the birth and death rate.
| Wards | Acres | Population | Person per Acre | Houses | Person per House | Births | Dths | Birth rate | Dth rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coombe | 1211 | 1168 | .96 | 136 | 8.5 | 5 | 7 | 4.28 | 5.09 |
| New Maiden | 1046 | 3890 | 3.6 | 834 | 4.6 | 97 | 51 | 24.9 | 13.1 |
| Old Maiden | 843 | 563 | .67 | 108 | 5.2 | 11 | 1 | 19.53 | 1.77 |
| Totals | 3100 | 5621 | 1078 | 113 | 59 |
You will see that your Ward, Old Maiden, has the
extremely low death rate of 1.77 per thousand, a death rate
that I have never for smallness before heard of.
If you will kindly refer to the tables furnished by the
Local Government Board, at the end of this report, you
will see that of the 59 deaths, 15 were under the year, and
22 over 65 years of age. This is a great improvement on
the previous year. The death rate for the 7 usual zymotic
diseases was .1 per thousand, as against .5 in 1894.
The death rate for Phthisis or Consumption, was .3 per
thousand, as against .7 in 1894.
As to diseases:—
11 deaths were due to Chest diseases, such as
Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Pleurisy.
Heart disease caused 4 deaths, being half the
number of 1894.
8 deaths were due to diseases of the Brain and
Nervous System, and 4 were caused by Cancer.
Under the diseases Notification Act, I received during
the year, 37 certificates. This number is ten less than in
the year 1894, and 22 less than in 1893. This decrease
shews the value of the act when in force.