[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Sudbury U.D.C. or Borough.

  • Sudbury (Suffolk, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Sudbury U.D.C. or Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUDBURY URBAN DISTRICT OR BOROUGH OF SUDBURY, IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF WEST SUFFOLK. Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health FOR 1903. [Pursuant to the Regulations of the Local Government Board and of the West Suffolk County Council.) clay. Population 1881, 6,592. Population 1891, 7,059. Population 1901, 7,109. Acreage 2,093. Number inhabited houses 1,590. Average number of persons per house 4.4. Geological formation, Chalk, covered with brick earth or drift sands and gravel, belonging to the boulder The following vital statistics are compiled from the returns received from the District Registrar, and notifications of Zymotic Diseases. BIRTHS. There were 159 births registered during the year, equivalent to a birth-rate of 22.3 per thousand of the population. The births and birth-rates in the borough during the past seven years were : 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. Births 129 187 *56 150 i58 155 159 Birth-rate 18.2 26.4 22.0 20.8 ' 22.2 20.5 22.3 The birth-rate for 1903 in England and Wales was 28.4. DEATHS. The total number of deaths from all causes registered in the district was 143, from which 22 deaths in the Workhouse and St. Leonard’s Hospital from the rural parishes have to be subtracted, leaving the actual deaths as 121, equivalent to a death-rate of 17.0 per thousand of the population. The deaths and death-rates during the past seven years were : 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. Deaths registered 120 r4i 178 140 152 138 H3 Deaths belonging to the District 96 113 146 116 129 114 121 Death-rate I3-5 16.0 20.6 16.4 18.1 15-7 17.0 The average for the last seven years was 119 or 16.7. The death-rate for 1903 in England and Wales was 15.4. This year’s death-rate is higher than the preceding year owing, as will be stated, to the deaths of ten children from measles. The following table shows the relative age mortality : Deaths ... Under 1 1 to 5 5 to 15 15 to 25 25 to 65 Over 65 year. years. years. years. years. years. 15 8 3 5 44 46 Infant Mortality. The deaths ol Infants under one year of age were 15, equivalent to the proportion of 94.3 per thousand births registered. The 1903 average for England and Wales was 132.0. Zymotic Deaths. The only deaths from this cause were ten from Measles. Influenza, but it is doubtful if it was the Epidemic form, follows. 1897. 0.7 1898. 0.7 1899. 0.7 1900. o-5 Two deaths in old people were attr^ The death rate for the past seven ye 1901. 0.1 1902. 0.6 1903. 1.4 For 1903 in England and Wales it was 1.4.