[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Stroud U.D.C.

  • Stroud (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Stroud U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The net deaths belonging to the district are thus’ 109, a rate per 1,000 of 12.7, which is the lowest recorded since 1904. The quin¬ quennial rates since 1875 will be found in Table B, from which it will be seen that they fell steadily from 21.6 (1875-1880) to 13.*9 (1901-1905): the rise to 14.4 in 1906-1910 is chiefly due to the heavy death rate in 1909, which was attributed to the comparatively large numbers of deaths under one and over sixty-five years of age. The death rate cor¬ rected for the age and sex distribution of the population is 12.3, while that for England and Wales was 13.4. The comparative rates for the two con¬ stituent civil parishes will be found in Table C. TABLE C. Birth and Death Rate and Infantile Mortality (1910) and Averages (1900-1909). Population Eii't hs Deaths Inf’ntile Average Average Mortl’ty 2 c 1910 Sfc Bate Rate 6 1910 Rate Rate No. 1910 Rate veragt Rate Stroud 7034- 149 21.2 20.4 91 12.9 15.5 10 67 119 Upl’nds 1580 30 19 0 18.4 18 11.4 10.5 4 133 S9 SU.l?.Cl}8614 179 20.8 20.05 109 12.7 14.7 14 78 112 INFANTILE MORTALITY. One of the most satisfactory features of the statistics for 1910 is the record low number of deaths of infants under one year of age (14) and the correspondingly low infantile mortality of 78. From Table B it will be seen that this rate has fallen from 161 in 1875- 1880 to 103 in 1906-1910, showing an annual saving of 58 children per 1,000 born: that is whereas formerly only 839 survived the first .year, now 897 reach their first birthday. The figures for the five years (1905-9) show that the infantile death rate in this district is the sixth highest in the county and is the same as that in Cheltenham, namely, 107 per 1,000 births. The excess of deaths occurs chiefly at ages under three months, but also at other ages. The principal causes are diarrhceal diseases, prematurity and congenital defects, and marasmus: the first and last of these are largely influenced by methods of feeding, and it is by greater attention to the