[Report 1877] / Medical Officer of Health, South Shields County Borough.

  • South Shields (Durham, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1877
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Credit: [Report 1877] / Medical Officer of Health, South Shields County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SICKNESS AND MORTALITY. During the fifty-two weeks of the year 1877 the returns of the District Eegistrars record 2300 births and 1220 deaths within the Borough. The ex¬ cess of births oyer deaths is thus 1080. Of the deaths 621 were of males and 599 of females. Population.—The Eegistrar General estimates the population for the whole South Shields Union to be, in the middle of the year under notice, 103,312, an estimate based upon the known rate of increase which prevailed in this district between the two last censuses; and of this population 60*5 per cent, is supposed to be within the Borough of South Shields. The number, however, which this proportion would represent, viz., 62,496, is probably too high, and I have preferred, therefore, to frame the necessary calculations upon other sources of information—principally upon the known increase in the number of dwellings occupied, and to estimate the population for the purposes of this report at 60,000; an increase of 2,800 over the estimate of the previous year. Births.—The birth-rate, per 1000 of this estimated population of 60,000, was 38*3 ; or 0*7 above the average rate of the 50 other large English towns, and 1*2 below the rate of 1876 of South Shields.