[Report 1885] / 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:
1885
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Credit: [Report 1885] / 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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    TO TTIE URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD AND THE COMBINED RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITIES OF THE SAME COUNTY. Twelfth Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health. (Pursuant to tho Regulations of the Local Government Board). THE URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD. Population (Census 1881) 19,822. Area in acres, 2,417. Houses, 4,000. Aggregate number of people to a house, 5. Parishes, 6. , December 31, 1885. Mu. Mayor and Gentlemen, Taking as a guide the order, dated March, 1880, issued by the Local Government Board, and by the 18th article, section 14 of that order, it is prescribed that the Medical Officer of Health shall “prepare an annual report, to be made to the end of December in each year,” Ac., &c., 1 have the honour now to place before you tny twelfth report made in compliance with the above-quoted order. I shall adhere to the plan I have hitherto adopted in such annual reports, and therefore commence with the usual formal record of the births and deaths occurring in tho city for the past twelve months. D uring the year 1885 the number of deaths registered for the whole of the city was 863, this is inclusive of the 34 in the Infirmaiy and 34 in the Workhouse, and, calculated on a popu- lation of 19,954, gives a rate of mortality of 1819 per 1,000, but deducting the 68 in the Infirmary and Workhouse and 2 executed in the County Gaol, tho rate is 14‘68 or Group 2. The Births numbered 521, giving a birth-rate of 25 per 1,000. With reference to sex, 252 were males, and 269 females. Of these 521 Births, 30 were illegitimate. The following table epitomises the ages at which the Deaths occurred throughout the city:—