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TWICKENHAM URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health,
1900.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Seventeenth Annual Report as to the
Health and Sanitary condition of the Parish of Twickenham. The Report will embrace
the vital statistics of the year, which terminated on December the 31st last,
and a summary of the measures taken for the prevention of the development and
dissemination of disease.
Appended to the report are four tables received from the Local Government
Board viz: Table 1 comprises the Population and the Birth and Death rate calculated
per 1,000 of estimated population for the past 10 years. Table II comprises the Births
and Deaths registered, and Deaths under 1 year of age. Table III comprises cases of
Infectious disease, notified during the past year. Table IV comprises the causes of
deaths, and ages at death for the same period. In addition to the above are four tables
furnished by the Middlesex County Council viz:—Table C (I, II, III, IV.)
For the convenience and information of the Council, I have embodied all the
particulars contained in the above tables in the text of this report.
Births.
The vital statistics are computed on an estimated population of 21,000. The
Births during 1900 were 531, of which 260 were Males, and 271 were Females, giving
a Birth rate of 25.3 per 1,000.
The total number of Births for 1899 was 521.
„ „1898 „ 466.
„ „ 1897 „ 495.
„ „ 1896„ 455.
At the last census the population was 16,026, and at the previous census it was
12,500. The district comprises 2,477 acres, and this works out at about 8.4 per acre.
Deaths.
In reviewing the past year, I have to record an increase amounting to 19 in the
number of deaths from all causes to that of the previous year. There has been however
an increase of 8 in the number of deaths from the Zymotic Diseases This is
accounted for by an increase in deaths from Measles and Whooping Cough, which
were chiefly prevalent in the summer and autumn. I he mean death rate for the
past 10 years is 13.6 per 1,000.