[Report 1884] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford.

  • Herefordshire Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities.
Date:
1884
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Credit: [Report 1884] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    total deaths in each year for the last 10 years, less for the year 1876 :— Table showing total cumber of Deaths from all causes in the ten years ending Dec. 81, 18S4, including the Workhouse.. 1876 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 188 • 1882 1883 1884 206 * 160 190 234 219 184 175 170 162 Rate per 1,000 17 2 13 415 7 19 3 181 16 6 15-2 15-3 14'0 ' No Returns. I also present you with a Table of Infantile Mortality, and those under tive years, showing a decrease therein for the last year :— Table showing number of Deaths of infants and th >se under 5 years from all causes for the ten years euding December 3>. 1884 .. 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 18*2 1888 1884 38 * 25 50 56 62 4G 25 48 36 Rate per 1.000 .. 34 2 0 44 4‘6 54 44 4-5 4’2 34 * No Returns Having done this I proceed to lay before you the Births for the last eight years, none having been furnished me for the years 1875-76. Table Bhowing number of Births for the last eight years ending December 31, 1884 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 0 * 300 330 406 298 310 317 295 309 * No RetU’ns These most satisfactory statements before you, 1 will now pioceed to analyse Table A,, or cause of death, required by the Local Government Board’s orders. Diphtheria, from which one deatli is recorded, the cause undoubtedly being from sewage polluted water. This case took place at the Bishop Froome Schools; these Schools I advised being closed for a month, as in order to remedy considerable msanitation about the place. Three other mild cases were traced to these defects. Enteric and Typhoid-. One death in the Brockhampton District, no cause could be assigned. Other or Doubtful Fevers is set down as causing one death, in the Bishop Froome District, to an illegitimate infant six months °ld out at nurse. The cottage where the child died was filthy, and, taking into consideration the miserable state the people were ln’ I am inclined to think privation was more the cause of death.