[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Chelmsford Borough.

Chelmsford (England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1896

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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Chelmsford Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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CHELMSFORD, January, 1897. To the Chairman and Members of the Sanitary Committee. Gentlemen, In making the usual Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the past year, I am labouring under great difficulties. Owing to the death of my Predecessor, Mr. E. Hunt Carter, in October last, I have had but a very short time to become acquainted in full with the duties of the office to which I was elected in November last. I am afraid that my report must necessarily be a scanty one, and confined in a great measure to statistical facts. I have to thank your Clerk, Mr. Dixon, for sending me all the Monthly Reports made by the late Medical Officer, from which I have gathered most of my data. VITAL STATISTICS. The Census Population taken in June, 1891, was 11,008. The estimated population in June, 1896, was 11,700. During the year 1898, 296 Births have be-registered, as against 305 births in 1895. This gives a birth-rate of 25’29 per 1,000, as against 26’3 per 1,000 in 1895. Births.