[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough.

  • Eastbourne (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Age Groups. Eastbourne, per cent. England and Wales, per cent. Under 5 years of age 10*02 12*25 5—15 21 *19 22*82 15-25 22*90 19*29 25—65 41*63 40*89 | 65 and upwards 4*24 472 The above tables and figures are worked out carefully because the age and sex constitutions of a population have an important bearing on the death and other rates. The effect of influence of sex on Eastbourne death-rates is caused by the excess of females. In comparing Eastbourne rates with others it should be remembered that the excess of females renders a death-rate slightly smaller than it otherwise would be. As regards age, Eastbourne is, as can be seen by the above table, on the whole, in very much the same position as England and Wales generally. In the period of very small death-rate— viz., from 5 —15—Eastbourne has a smaller percentage of population ; this is, however, more than counterbalanced by the smaller percentage of population in the under 5 years of age group, in which, owing chiefly to infantile mortality, the death- rate is a high one. The distribution of the population according to Wards is shewn in the subjoined table. The 1898 estimate is only approximate and based principally on the increase in the number of dwelling-houses in each locality :— Wards. Population in 1891. (Census). East 12113 Central 10501 West 5736 St. Mary’s 6619 Population in 1898. (Estimate). 16760 I 1208 7322 102 10 Total 34969 45500