[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough.
- Doncaster (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1897. Population at Census, 1891 ... ... ... ... 1,450 I)o. 1897 1,450 Area in Acres ... ... ... ... ... 5579 TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE TICKHILL URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Gentlemen, I have now to present to you my annual report for 1897. I have taken the population to be the same as when the district was extended, viz., 1450. The number of births registered last year was 45, males 21, females 24; the birth rate was 30 per 1000 of the population. That is higher than the average of recent years. In Tickhill there were 29 deaths registered, males 18, females 11. Three of these were persons strangers to Tickhill and are deducted, a death at the Workhouse of an inmate from Tickhill is added, the corrected number is therefore 27, and the death rate is 18-6 per 1000. That is the same rate as in 1896, and is a higher rate than should prevai] in a small rural town. Throughout the whole of England and Wales last year the death rate was only 17'4, and was one of the three years in which the lowest death rate was returned. Two deaths were returned among the zymotic diseases, viz., an adult from enteric fever, and an infant from diarrhoea. The deaths from diseases of the lungs were more than the average, there were 2 due to phthisis, 27 from bronchitis, pneumonia, &c. The death rate was 6*2 per 1000, or twice the usual number. Four of these deaths, however, were of per- sons who had reached 60 years of age or over, but last year the number of deaths among those who had lived to the age of 65 at least was equal to 41 per cent, of the total deaths during the year. In Tickhill it has been the rule to find even a larger pro- portion of these aged persons. Birth and Death Rates.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29162798_0163.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
