Statistical examination of the Margate death-rate, for the five years, 1863-1867 : by order of the Council of the Borough of Margate / by Edward Mottley.

  • Mottley, Edward.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Statistical examination of the Margate death-rate, for the five years, 1863-1867 : by order of the Council of the Borough of Margate / by Edward Mottley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Mortality of the Year 1866. The death-rate of this year in Margate rises somewhat above the usual favourable rate of mortality, being 19 per 1,000. But as the number dying of zymotic diseases was only 33 of the entire population, and as this favour- able number can hardly be co-existent with the increased general mortality, it is highly probable that the increase of population, occupying the large number of important new houses, accounts for the apparent anomaly—this view is also confirmed by the unusual low rate of mortality from pulmonary diseases.* At Margate the mortality is as follows :— Zymotic Diseases 33 ] Bronchitis 6 ' to 10,000. Consumption H j These numbers are among the lowest ever recorded, and Margate appears this year to have assumed its equilibrium—the mortality being 17 per 1,000. Zymotic 37 Bronchitis — Consumption — The present examination of the public health of Margate having extended over the whole period of registration, one fact stands out prominently, and that is the exceeding low mortality of lung diseases; this opens a most important field for future inquiries—viz., the value of Margate as a winter residence for persons liable to pulmonary diseases ; a comparison of Margate in this special branch of medical geography with some of the most celebrated places of resort in the south of Europe affords a valuable lesson on this most important subject. * The comparison with the mortality of the country camiot be continued, as at the time of going to press the report of the Registrar-General for 1860-67 was not publisljed.