[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Number of Deaths at subjoined ages in each year. Years. Under 1 Year. 1 and under 5. 5 and under 26. 25 and upwards. Total. 1895 1—' i j 99 46 281 600 1896 180 93 57 252 582 1897 169 75 46 255 545 1898 131 44 40 271 486 1899 181 87 40 269 577 1900 162 67 62 286 577 1901 138 49 37 261 485 1902 123 59 33 254 469 1903 121 69 58 220 468 1904 133 45 31 249 458 Average of 10 years 1895 to 1904 151 69 45 260 525 1905 no 59 29 263 461 In 1905 you will see that fewer Deaths of infants and young people between the ages of five and twenty-five occurred than in 1904 ; but that more children died between one and five years and more adults over twenty-five years of age. Compared with the average of the ten pireceding years you will find that there is only a slight increase of the Deaths over the age of twenty-five, whilst all the other groups show a marked decrease. The increased number of Deaths over twenty-five are not as many as might be expected from the increased population. This table points to a satisfactory prolongation of life in young people. The various causes of Death are shown in Table G, in which I arrange the number of Deaths of Residents in each Ward under their respective causes, and compare the total number of Deaths due to each cause with similar totals of the previous ten years, and with the average number of Deaths due to each cause during the past decade 1895—1904. [9]