[Report 1888] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough.

  • Leicester (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1888
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    212, giving a death-rate per 1000 of the population of ry. The zymotic death-rate, including the whole of the zymotic diseases, was 2-6 (see Tables X. and XI.), a gratifying decrease on the preceding year. Much of this decrease was accounted for by the smaller number of deaths from Diarrhoea. Throughout the country at large the zymotic death-rate was lower. In the twenty-eight large towns of the kingdom, it reached only i'\ per 1000. The lowest rates were—in Hull ri, Halifax i'2, Bristol and Sunder¬ land i-3, and Brighton 1*4. The highest recorded were—in Sheffield 3• 6, and Blackburn 4M per 1000. Distribution of Zymotic Disease.—The distribution of these zymotic deaths, in the various districts of the Borough, is given in Table XII., where the number of deaths occurring in each ward is set forth. It has been pointed out, in former years, that the fifth, or East St. Mary’s Ward, is, in proportion TABLE XII. Deaths in each of the Wards of the Borough, from the seven chief Zymotic Diseases, during 1888. Ward. Whoop¬ ing Cough. Small pox. Measles Scar¬ let Fever Diph¬ theria Fever Diarr¬ hoea. Total. i. St. Martin’s .... - 0 O O O 0 0 I 2. N. Margaret’s . . '7 0 6 I 0 J> 28 55 3- M. „ 2 3 0 37 0 4 8 43 1 16 4- E. 25 0 9 I I 6 25 67 5. E. Mary’s . 1 0 0 I I I 2 6 6- W. „ . 1 1 0 IQ I 7 1 2 29 78 7. All Saints’. 8 0 6 0 0 2 2 I .>7 Decrease in mortality from