[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashton-in-Makerfield U.D.C.

  • Ashton-in-Makerfield (England). Urban District Council. n 78087965.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashton-in-Makerfield U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JUciJical of ^caltlj’s Annual Export (20tlj). ROCK HOUSE, February 10th, 1894. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, 1 beg to submit to you my Annual Report for tbe twentieth time, appending as usual the official tables A and B of the Local Government Board, and table C of the County Council. Both tables A and B now require the numbers distinguishing as to cases under five and over five respectively. The zymotic diseases prevalent consisted of Smallpox, Scarlet Fever, Enteric and Continued Fevers, Puerperal Fever, notifiable under the Act; also Measles, Diarrhoea, Whooping Cough, not notified. Influenza, frequent at end of year, caused one death. The death rate, as calculated upon tbe population as estimated to 1st July, is 22'3, against 20'5 for 1892, and 22'7 for 1891. The mean for the immediate previous decade being 21‘0. The increased rate being refei’able to mortality from Fevers, Diarrhoea, Gastro-Enteric disease, and largely, too, from an unusual number of deaths in very young children. As a result, therefore, the zijmotio death rate is above the average. We had a total of 58 deaths fi-om the seven chief of this class, and equal to a rate of 4 0 per 1,000, against 3‘7 for 1892, and against a mean of 3 0 for the previous decade. The births registered were 650, equal to a rate of 45’8. Births ;—Males, 329 Deaths:— ,, 153 176 Females, 321 .. 165 156 Total, 650. „ 318. 332 Two persons killed in the district, but not residents therein. Estimated population on 1st January, 1894—14,289. reduce the net natural increment to 330. Mortality at subjoined ages, as shewn in table A, is as under:— Deaths under 1 year 1.30 1 „ 1 year and under 5 years ... 55 1 j) ^ >1 15 years ... 9 ^ „ 15 25 years ... 10 1 61 I „ 25 60 years .. „ 60 years and up wards 53 J 318 Total under 6 Total over 5 185 133 318 The infantile death rate is very high indeed, being 200 per 1,000—that is, of the 650 born during the year, one-fifth would not attain the first year. Of this large number no less than 56 (highest record) were in infants ranging irom one month to five seconds; attributed to debility from birth, premature birth, inanition, and the like; inclusive also of five out of a number from Gastro Enteric disease (to which I shall refer later), five f'-om Lung Diseases, and seven to Diarrhoea. So that we have had many causes raising the mortality at a delicate period of life. With regard to the remainder of the 130, it may be here mentioned that three were due to Diarrhoea, sixteen to Inflammation of the Gastro-intestinal Tract, fourteen to tubercular and other wasting diseases of infancy, and nine to Lung Diseases. Old Age.—Thirty-flve males and 18 females died over 60, the average of the former being 72|, and the latter 71f years. Uncertified deaths were six, and by unregistered pi-actitioners six.