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Death Rate.
The population at the Census of 1891 was 10052 and
this has now been officially estimated to the middle of 1893
to be 10271 living in 1980 houses on an area of 1000 acres,
thus giving 10.27 persons to the acre, and 5.1 per house.
The death rate for the year will consequently be 11.87 per
thousand per annum. This compares with 11.94 of the
year before. For last year the death rate for all England
and Wales is 19.2 as against 190 per thousand per annum
the previous year.
ymotic
Diseases.
The deaths due to the principal zymotic diseases are 7,
being three from scarlatina, three from diptheria, and one
from typhoid fever, none from either measles or whooping
cough. This gives a zymotic death rate of 0.6, that for
England and Wales in the same period was 2.47 which is
considerably in excesss of 1.90 the year before.
Causes of Death
Of these 122 deaths, 55 are males and 67 females, 26
were 70 years and upwards, and 15 were under one year of
age. There died of phthisis, 4; of other lung diseases,
25; of heart disease, 19; of cancer, 7; of violence, 6; of
premature birth, 1; of epidemic influenza, 6.
Births.
The number of births has greatly decreased, being 186
as against 218 last year; of these there were boys 94; girls
92. The birth rate is therefore 18.2. Last year it was
21.5. For England and Wales it is 30.8. The deaths of
infants in 1891 were 136 per thousand births; in 1892 they
were 105.5 ; and last year 80.6, a very marked diminution.
The following are some particulars respecting the
various diseases of the zymotic group :—
Small-Pox.
One case only of this disease was notified, it was
removed at once to hospital, the inmates of the house revaccinated
and all necessary disinfection and precautions
resorted to. The patient recovered and no further case
occurred.