[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C.

  • West Lancashire (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Halsall 2, Lydiate 8, Maghull 5, Scarisbrick 4, and Simonswood 1. Calculating on these facts, the Population is estimated to have been at the middle of 1898 about 27,541, including 280 inmates of Public Institutions. Birth Rate.—Six hundred and fifty-three Births were registered as having occurred in the District, 344 of Males and 309 of Females, and one child was born in Ormskirk Workhouse, whose parents belonged to KufFord. These 653 Births are equal to a Birth Rate of 23*71 per 1000 of population, which is 2-31 below that of the previous year, and considerably below that of 28’53, the average of the ten years ending 1897. Nine, or nearly 1*4 per cent., were illegitimate. Death Rate.—Three hundred and eighty-two Deaths were registered, 208 Males and 174 Females, but 18 occurred in Public Institutions and 10 were of other strangers. Of these latter, 1 died in the camp at Altcar, in BickerstafFe 1 was drowned, in Formby 1 was a body washed up by the sea, and 1 was a visitor whose death was caused by Phthisis Pulmonalis, in Maghull 3 were killed on the railway, in Melling a girl was killed while cycling and a woman was drowned, in Scarisbrick a man was run over. The subtraction of these, and the addition of the deaths of 11 men and 1 woman in Ormskirk Workhouse, leaves 366 Deaths, 202 Males and 164 Females, as the correct number, which is equal to a Death Rate of 13*29 per 1000. This is less than that of 1897, which was 15*22, and lower than the average of the previous ten years, which was 15*3. Zymotic Death Rate.—Thirty-one Deaths were caused by the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, 1 being due to Scarlet Fever, 4 to Diphtheria, 6 to Enteric Fever, 5 to Measles, 6 to Whooping Cough, and 9 to Diarrhoea. These are equal to a Zymotic Death Rate of 1*12 per 1000, which is slightly less than that of the previous year, and also slightly less than the average of the last ten years.