[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.

  • Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    portion to the number of males at that age living, exceed tlie corresponding rates for females. Between 55 and 75, and 75 and upwards the discrepancy is particularly notice- able. Deaths at Various Ages. Of the 788 deaths, residents and visitors combined— 119 occurred in children under one year Percent. of age 15-1^ 52 between the ages of i and 5 6.60 405 between the ages of 5 and 65 5i-40 212 in persons over 65 26.90 788 100.00 Table A (Appendix) shows the proportion of deaths under one, under 5 years of age and over 65, for each year, from 1886 to 1907. It is worth noting that the proportion of deaths of per- sons over 65 is higher for 1907, than for any year on record, whilst the percentage of deaths of persons under five years of age is smaller than for any year on record. This of course, is an encouraging circumstance, and is accounted for by the lower infant mortality and the smaller zymotic rate, but also partly by the fact of the lower birth-rates recorded during the last few years altering the proportion of children under five to the whole population. The deaths and death-rates per 1,000 living, at each age period, of residents only are shown in Table IV., from which it will be seen that 162 out of 677 occurred under