[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Penistone U.D.C.

Penistone (England). Urban District Council.

Date:: 1904

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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Penistone U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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outside'the District ; 1 in the Peiiistone Uuiou Workhouse ; 1 in the Royal Infirmary, Manchester ; and the third in South Yorkshire Asylum, Wadsley Bridge, this gives a corrected total of 41 deaths, with an average death-rate of 12*5 per thousand. There were 16 deaths under 5 years of age, 10 of these being in infants under 1 year, 6 were in infants under 1 month. Twelve deaths occurred in people over 65 years of age, 3 from 72 to 77, and 4 from 80 to 87. No deaths were recorded in June. Of the total deaths 10 were due to diseases of the Respiratory organs, 5 of these being attributed to Bronchitis, and 5 to other Respiratory diseases. Nine deaths were due to Heart diseases, 2 to Oancer, 2 to Premature Birth, and 3 to Tubercular diseases. Of the Tubercular diseases there was 1 of Pulmonary Phthisis, 1 of Tubercular Meningitis, and the other Tubercular Peritonitis, the two latter occurring under 5 years of age. One fatal case of Diphtheria was recorded. Inquests were held in the case of 4 deaths, one of these taking place in Manchester Infirmary on a platelayer accidently killed on the railway. The number of deaths under 1 year was 10, which gives an infant death-rate of 106 per thousand births registered. In 1903 the rate was 88’2. The average for the preceding 10 years was 116, while that for England and Wales for 1903 was 146. Of the deaths under I year, 1 was due to Tuberculosis, 2 to Respiratory diseases, 2 to Premature Birth, and 5 to other causes. The number of births registered during the year was 94, and this, taking the estimated population as 3259, gives a birth-rate of 29*1 rather below the average of the preceding 10 years which was 30*1, but exceeding the average birth-rate for England and Wales which was 27*9.