[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Houghton-le-Spring R.D.C.

  • Houghton-le-Spring (Durham, England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Houghton-le-Spring R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The rate per 1,000 births registered is 127. The following Table gives the death rate per 1,000 from the principal Zymotic diseases, including Phthisis and the acute diseases of the lungs for the last three years. . No. Diseases. 1908 1909 1910 I Small Pox 2 Scarlet Fever •05 •2 *°4 3 Diphtheria and Membranous Croup ... 22 •2 *i 4 Typhoid and Continued Fever '5 •2 *i 5 Measles •05 7 •04 6 Whooping Cough I*OI •2 *08 7 Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Enteritis ... r86 •6 8 Phthisis ... *44 '4 •6 9 Acute Diseases ... 3*38 2’5 3 2 IO Other Tubercular Diseases '56 7 •2 11 Zymotic Death Rate ... 372 1*9 *96 Births.—-The births for the year number 968—492 males and 476 females—representing a birth rate of 39.2 per 1,000 per annum, and a gain to the population of 607. The following Table gives the number of births—male and female—including birth rate for the last four years. Year. Total Births. Males. Females Rate per 1000 Natural Increase. 1907 642 351 291 38M 360 1908 734 365 369 4i*4 409 1909 917 475 442 38*6 578 1910 968 492 476 39‘2 607 Table IV gives the mortality, classified according to diseases, ages and localities. I am unable, however, to apportion the births to the various parishes, as I am not furnished with the' necessary information. Nor am I able to estimate the population of the different parishes and give the death rate appropriate to each. The deaths, of course, are properly localised in the returns of the Registrar, but the births occurring in the whole district are simply given without reference to the parishes in which they take place. Such information may be obtained from the Registrar of births by payment of Twopence for each birth entered therein.