[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Bingley U.D.C.

  • Bingley (England). Urban District Council. nb2008024122.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Bingley U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10, tailors 9, tinners and plumbers 7. Seven of the bakehouses are underground. Eegular inspections have been made, and in two cases the special sanitary requirements for bakehouses were found not to have been complied with. These defects have been remedied, and on the whole the Factory and Workshops’ accomodation in the district is satisfactory. XI. Vital Statistics.—The tables at the end of this section give the vital statistics of the district in detail, but a few explanatory notes may be useful. The birth-rate and death-rate are calculated on an estimated population of 18,780 at the middle of the year. Depression of trade, how- ever, such as we have experienced during recent years, often means, in an industrial district, a diminution of population, and it is possible that sufficient allowance may not have been made for this decrease. If that is so, the birth-rate and death-rate will appear lower than they actually are. For purposes of comparison I insert the following table compiled from publications of the Eegistrar General, showing the annual rates for England and Wales during 1904, and supplied to me by the County Medical Officer. TABLE C. VITAL STATISTICS FOE THE YEAE 1904. 1904. England and Wales. Great Towns (76) Smaller Towns (142) England and Wales less the 218 Towns BIETH-EATE 27-9 29-1 27-5 26-8 DEATH-EATE 16-2 17-2 15.6 15-3 Zymotic Death-Eate ... 1-94 2-49 2-02 1-28 Infantile Mortality (per 1,000 births) 146 160 154 125 It may be noted that the Birth-rate for England and Wales is the lowest on record. Births.—During the year, 401 births were registered. Of these 201 were males and 200 females. The birth-rate, on the estimated population is 21.3 per thousand. The following figures show the continuous decrease in the birth-rate during recent years. In 1900 the birth-rate was 24.1 per 1000 per annum. In 1901 „ „ 23.9 In 1902 „ „ 23.4 In 1903 „ ., 21.8 In 1904 „ „ 21.3 Deaths.—The deaths registered as having occurred in the district were 266 in number. To this total an addition of 15 has to be made for deaths of residents occurring in institutions outside the district, eleven of these having taken place in the Union Infirmary at Keighley, one in a West Eiding Asylum, and three in Bradford Eoyal Infirmary. The corrected total is therefore 281. Of these, 128 were males and 153 were females. This gives a death-rate of 14.9 per thousand. In twelve cases the cause of death was not certified by a medical practitioner nor by the coroner, but where there were sufficient grounds for the classification of these cases I have placed them under their proper heading. I may mention that the number of persons dying over the age of 80 was 23, and of these, three were over 90 years old. The death-rate in the previous four years is given below in comparison with that of 1904. In 1900 the death-rate was 18.9 per 1000 per annum. In 1901 In 1902 In 1903 In 1904 Infant Mortality.—The increased death-rate is partly accounted for by the fact that the number of deaths of infants under one year is greater than in any one of the previous three years, and this, in turn, is partly due to epidemics of measles and whooping cough, which will be referred to later. The number of deaths under one year was 57, which gives a death-rate of 142 in every thousand born. Whooping cough, enteritis, and bronchitis were the chief causes of death in infants. I must repeat what I have before stated that the infantile death-rate is capable of further reduction by better sanitation, greater care in keeping youn^ chiMren away from the infection of such diseases as measles and whooping cough, and by the instruction of girls and young women in the principles of the feeding of infants. The following table shows the birth-rate, death-rate, and infant mortality in the different Wards. 16.7 12.3 14 14.9