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Sutton 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Sutton]
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TABLE I.
Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1904 and Previous Years.
| Year. | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Total Deaths Registered in the District. | Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Nonresidents registered in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Eesidents registered in Public Institutions beyond the District. | Nett Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number. | Rate.* | Under 1 Year of Age. | At all Ages. | |||||||||
| Number. | Rate per 1,000 Births registered | Number. | Rate.* | Number. | Rate.* | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1894 | 15,000 | 317 | 24.4 | 28 | 88 | 127 | 9.8 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 122 | 9.4 |
| 1895 | 15,400 | 319 | 23.8 | 22 | 69 | 128 | 9.5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 140 | 10.4 |
| 1890 | 15,800 | 324 | 23.4 | 108 | 133 | 9.6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 146 | 10.6 | |
| 1897 | 16,000 | 317 | 22.5 | 44 | 139 | 172 | 12.3 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 184 | 13.2 |
| 1898 | 16,41.0 | 324 | 22.4 | 44 | 136 | 160 | 11.2 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 175 | 12.3 |
| 1899 | 16,700 | 366 | 24.8 | 51 | 139 | 160 | 10.9 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 177 | 12.0 |
| 1900 | 17,000 | 380 | 25.0 | 31 | 81 | 177 | 11.6 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 190 | 12.6 |
| 1901 | 17,310 | 367 | 23.5 | 43 | 117 | 175 | 11.2 | 8 | 4 | 20 | 191 | 12.2 |
| 1902 | 17,638 | 364 | 22.9 | 40 | 109 | 171 | 10.7 | 14 | 5 | 29 | 195 | 12.2 |
| 1903 | 17,168 | 388 | 23.9 | 32 | 82 | 131 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 22 | 150 | 9.2 |
| Averages for years 1894.1903. | 16,441 | 346 | 23.6 | 37 | IC6 | 153 | 10.5 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 167 | 11.4 |
| 1904 | 16,997 | 377 | i2.8 | 35 | 82 | 154 | 9.3 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 166 | 100 |
* Rates in Columns 4, 8, and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated population, excluding Metropolitan
Asylums Board School, Banstead Road, 497 at Census taken Midsummer, 1904.
Note.—The deaths to be included in Column 7 of this Table are the whole of those registered
during the year as having actually occurred within the district or division. The deaths to be included
in Column 12 are the number in Column 7, corrected by the subtraction of the number in Column 10
and the addition of the number in Column 11.
By the term "Non.residents" is meant persons brought into the district on account of sickness or
infirmity, and dying in public institutions there; and by the term Residents" is meant persons who
have been taken out of the district on account of sickness or infirmity, and have died in public
institutions elsewhere.
The "Public institutions" to be taken into account for the purposes of these Tables are those into
which persons are habitually received on account of sickness or infirmity, such as hospitals, workhouses
and lunatic asylums.
Institutions within the District receiving sick and infirm persons from outside the District—
Sutton Hospital and Metropolitan Asylum Board's Ringworm School.
Institutions outride the District receiving sick and infirm persons from the District—
Epsom Workhouse, Brookwood Asylum, and Cuddington Isolation Hospital.
Area of District in acres. Total population at all ages 17,221. At
(exclusive of area 11886 Number of inhabited houses 2,976 Census
covered by water). Average number of persons per house 5.7 (of 1901.
Table II. —Showing the Sickness recorded in the district from the undermentioned Zymotic Diseases in each month of the year 1904, and in the ten preceding years.
| 1904. | Small Pox. | Scarlet F ever. | Diphtheria. | EntericFever. | Membranous Croup. | Puerperal Ferer. | Erysipelas. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | House* invaded. | Cases. | House* invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | Cases. | Houser in.vaied. | Capes. | bouses in.* aded. | Cases. | Houses invaded. | |
| January | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| February | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| March | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| April | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| May | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| June | 2 | 2 | 1 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| July | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| August | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| September | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| October | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| November | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| December | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Total in 1904 | 31 | 27 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Total in 1903 | 21 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Total in 1902 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 31 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | ||||
| Total in 1901 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 12 | ||||
| Total in 1900 | 127 | 78 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | ||||
| Total in 1899 | 129 | 84 | 38 | 32 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | |||
| Total in 1898 | 59 | 44 | 60 | 46 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Total in 1897 | 28 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Total in 1896 | 42 | 33 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | I | 4 | 4 | ||||
| Total in 1895 | 20 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| Total in 1894 | 35 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||