[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Stone R.D.C. Eccleshall Division.

  • Stone (Staffordshire, England). Rural District Council (Eccleshall Division)
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Stone R.D.C. Eccleshall Division. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stone Rural District Council. ECCLESHALL DIVISION. Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit to your notice my Annual Report on the Sanitary conditions of the Eccleshall District for the year 1904. I enclose the Tables required by the Local Government Board. The number of births registered during the year was 117, diuth-rate. against 130 for 1903, and 20 below the average for the preceding jo years. The birth-rate, with the population estimated at 5,611, was 20*8 per 1,000, compared with 23*1 for 1903. In the year 1894 there were 159 births registered. There were 77 deaths registered at all ages, giving a death-rate death-rate. of 13*9 per 1,000 of the estimated population. In 1903, the deaths were 67, with a rate of 11*9 per 1,000. The average for the preceding 10 years was 74 deaths with a rate of 12-9 per 1,000. The number of deaths in children under one year of age was infanth.^ 10, compared with 7 in 1903. The infantile death-rate per 1,000 of registered births was 85*4, against 5.3-8 for 1903. The average for the preceding 10 years was 13 deaths, with a rate ol 100 per 1,000 registered births. In each locality the number of births and deaths (at all ages), and the rates per 1,000 of the estimated populations, were as follows : — Eccleshall, estimated population 3,813, births 76, rate per 1,000, 19*0, deaths 57, rate per 1,000, 10-4; Swynnerton, estimated population 805, births 19, rate per 1,000, 23-6, deaths 9, rate per 1,000 ii-i ; Standon, estimated population 422, births 5, rate per 1,000 11*4, deaths 4, rate per 1,000 9-4; Chebsey and Cold Norton, estimated population 570, births 17, rate per 1,000 29-8, deaths 7, rate per 1,000 12*2.