[Report 1886] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham.

  • Birmingham (England). Council.
Date:
1886
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Credit: [Report 1886] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    degree. Severe weather set iii again in December, and was maintained daring the greater portion of the month, but its influence on the Death-rate was apparently not so great as one might have expected, though some of it doubtless was not percejDtible till after the end of the year. The distribution of the deaths among each of the eight Registration Sub-Districts during each quarter of the past ReKisuaUon^ year and during that and the three preceding years, as well as Districts, the Death-rate of each sub-district during the year under review are given in the following statement : — Total Total Total 'I’otiil Death- 1st (J,Uiir •liiil (iuar. 3ld Quar. 4th Quar. Deaths 1880. Deaths 1880. Deaths 1884. Deaths 1883. rate 1886. Lady wood (H.) 269 253 266 249 1,037 967 1,088 1,004 18-5 St. Tlioinas (H.) 197 1S4 178 185 744 776 907 828 19-5 St. Martin ... 189 185 199 174 747 809 870 812 18-3 St. George (H.) 478 378 391 328 1,575 1,449 1,606 1,548 24-6 All Saints (W.; L G.; B.H.) ... 4.51 432 357 284 1,524 1,441 1,654 1,682 28-4 Deritend 420 333 400 357 1,510 1,396 1,469 1,408 15-9 Duddeston ... 324 246 280 239 1,089 1,045 1,166 1,186 17-9 Edgbaston ... 69 75 56 73 273 273 283 246 10-6 A comparison of the figures for the last two years shows that rather considerably more deaths have occurred in the Registration Sub-Districts of All Saints, Saint George, and Deriteud than in the previous year, while in those of Saint Thomas and Saint Martin the number of deaths has undergone a reduction; the number in the Edgbaston Sub-District is identical with that of the previous year. Appended to the actual figures of mortality will be found, as usual, the Death-rates of the several Registration Sub- Districts ; in order to calculate these it has been found necessary to adopt the only course available, viz., to proceed on the supposition that the rate of movement of the population of each District which prevailed between 1871 and 1881 has been in progress since the latter date. As, however, there are ample reasons for thinking that in several of these Districts, notably I in that of Saint Thomas, this has not taken place, it will not be well to place too much reliance on even the approximate I accuracy of some, at least, of the above death-rates. I ! In comparing the death-rates of the several Registration cause of deatb- I Sub-Districts one with another, allowance should be made in subViltrirts”' ’ several of the districts for the occurrence in them of deallis in ^preariug too