[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashford U.D.C.

  • Ashford (Kent, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashford U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hsbforb XUrban Bistnct MEDICAL OFFICER’S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1898. Mr. Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Gentlemen, Although having only been in office for the last four months of 1898 I am only responsible for a report on the Sanitary transactions during that period, I thought it would be more satisfactory if I compiled the vital statistics and those of Infectious Disease for the whole year, and this I have done to the best of my ability. Beginning then with the Vital Statistics :— The total number of deaths during the year has been U4. Ainety-two occurred in the district north of the S.E. Railwa}’ and fifty-two in the district south of the S.E. Railway. This gives a death-rate of 12-42 for the whole district. The figures for the sub-districts are :— North Ashford, 1219. South Ashford, 13-21. Vhen it is remembered that the average annual death-rate for England and Wales is 19-1, I think we may congratulate ourselves on these figures. The Zymotic death-rate is 0-87, which is again a good deal below the average for the whole country.