[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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    Deaths in the City, including Infirmary and Workhouse, from January ls£ to December 31s/, 1885. I 92 under 5 yoars. unde r 1 year of age ... 65 over 1 ,, and under 5 years 27 ) ) 5 „ 15 „ 13 15 „ 25 „ 29 }) 25 „ „ 60 „ 94 GO ». up 135 Total of all ages, 363 Tlio grouping into various ages in the above table is in ac- cordance with the ages fixed in the tables furnished by the Local Government Board, which are duly filled in and accompany this report, and taken as a standard the annexed table, published by the eminent hygienist, Dr. Richardson, in his report upon tho death rates of Urban districts, states in same that— “ At the present moment there arc varying death-rates in English towns from the model low to the unnatural or exces- sively high. These may be divided into groups as follows:— Group 1. Death-rate from 8 to 12 in the 1,000 „ 2. „ „ 12 to 16 „ „ 3. „ „ 10 to 20 „ „ 4. „ „ 20 to 24 ' „ „ 5. „ „ 24 to 28 „ „ “ G. ,, „ 28 to 32 ,, ,, There are very few towns as yet which have attained to the perfection shown in the first of these groups, perhaps none that through a series of years have done so. A few towns especially favoured in respect to population, situation, and wealth have attained to the position of the second group.” Table showing the number of Deaths in each year for the last eleven years ending 1885 from the eight chief zymotic diseases, including those in Workhouse, Infirmary, and the whole of the City:— The Eight Chief Zymotic Diseases in Smallpox Measles - - - - Scarlet Fever- Diphtheria - Whooping Cough - Typhus Fever Enteric, Typhoid and Continued Fevers - Diarrhoea and Dysentery - - • 1S75 1S76 1877 1878 1879 1880 1S81 1S82 1883 1884 1885 1 12 G 8 5 7 75 11 4 — 1 4 4 3 12 2 7 27 1 — 29 1 — 1G 5 13 12 9 l — 1 2 — 3 1 — 1—9—11 3 2 — — 2— 2 — — 2 1 8 9 5 15 5 28 4 6 8 14 8