[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Northwich U.D.C.

  • Northwich (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Northwich U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    District, and have been added to the deaths in the districts to which they belonged. There are also two deaths to be added to this number which were registered in other districts of persons belonging to Northwich, thus making the actual reduction thirteen instead ot fifteen, and the corrected number of deaths 314. The mean birth rate during the three years 1893-5 was 39*8. The mean death rate during the same three years was 19’2. Thus in 1896 the birth rate was i*6 less and the death rate r5 less than the average for the three preceding years. The number of births registered in the first quarter was 177, in the second 179, in the third 156, and in the fourth 173. lhe number of deaths (deducting those not belonging to the district) registered in the first quarter was 66, in the second 68, in the third 75, and in the last 118. The death rate in the four quarters was 14*8 in the first, i5fi in the second, 16*8 in the third, and 26*5 in the last. 1 he great increase in the last quarter was due chiefly to diseases of the lungs. The Zymotic Death liate was 3*3 per thousand, the cotal number of deaths being 33. Two of these deaths occurred in the first quarter, one being due to typhoid fever and one to scarlet fever. Four occurred during the second quarter, two being from measles and one each from typhoid fever and diarrhoea. Eleven in the third quarter, 6 of which were due to diarrhoea, 4 to scarlatina, and one to typhoid fever. During the fourth quarter 36 were recorded, scarlet fever and whooping cough each causing 6, diarrhoea 2, typhoid fever and measles one each. Infant Mortality.—117 ot the deaths registered were ot infants under one year old, 28 being from diseases of the lungs, 25 convulsions, 17 inflammation of the stomach and bowels and diarrhoea, 14 premature birth, 12 marasmus, 5 tubercular affections, 4 malforma¬ tions at birth, 2 syphilis, 2 meningitis, 1 nephritis, 1 phthisis, 2 measles,! whooping cough, and 3 found dead in bed. 23 were registered in the first quarter, 36 in the second, 17 in the third, and 42 in the last. Of the 117 infants 79 were not 6 months old at the time of death. The proportion of births to deaths was equal to 170 per thousand in 1896, in the three years 1893-5 it averaged 194 per thousand. Thus about one out of every six children born in Northwich dies before it readies 12 months ot age.