[Report 1898] / Sanitary Committee [- Medical Officer of Health], Cornwall County Council.

  • Cornwall (England). County Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Sanitary Committee [- Medical Officer of Health], Cornwall County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEATHS. The total number of deaths, from all causes, registered in 1898 was 5,651 (2763 males and 2888 females), giving a general death-rate of 17-55 per thousand. 3,181 deaths occurred in the Eural portion, equal to a death-rate of 16-25 per thousand, and 2,470 in the Urban, equal to a death-rate of 19*64 per thousand. The death-rate in England and Wales in 1898 was 17-6 per thousand, and in 33 large towns 19*0. ZYMOTIC DEATHS. Deaths due to Zymotic diseases in 1898 numbered 436, equal to a death-rate for these diseases of 1*35 per thousand of the population, and included 9 from Scarlet fever, 33 from Diphtheria and Membran- ous Croup, 33 from Enteric fever, 2 from Continued fever, 39 from Measles, 159 from Whooping Cough, and 170 from Diarrhoea. In England and Wales the zymotic death-rate in 1898 was 2-22 per thousand, and in 33 large towns 2-85. Of these 436 zymotic deaths the Eural districts contributed 185, equal to a death-rate of 0-95 per thousand, and the Urban 251, equal to a death-rate of 1*98 per thousand. INFANTILE MORTALITY. During 1898 there were 1,252 deaths of infants under 1 year, and thus comprised 22-10 per cent, of the whole deaths, and equal to a death-rate of 3*88 per thousand, and 156*24 per thousand births. The relative proportions of the Eural and Urban districts are as follows ;—Eural, 635 deaths, giving a death-rate of 3 24 per thousand, 19*96 per cent, of the whole deaths, and 131*34 per thousand births; Urban, 617 deaths, giving a death-rate of 4*88 per thousand, 24*97 per cent, of the whole deaths, and 193*14 per thousand births. In 1898 the infantile mortality rate for England and Wales was 161 per thousand births, and for 33 large towns 178, INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Table 6 shows the number of new cases of Infectious sickness in oach locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during 1898. From which it will be seen that in the Eural districts were notified or ascertained 1 case of Smallpox, 314 cases of Scarlatina, 105 cases of Diphtheria, 14 cases of Membranous Croup, 86 cases of Enteric or Typhoid fever, 4 cases of Continued fever, 2 cases of Puerperal fever, and 95 cases of Erysipelas.