[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Kingston-upon-Hull County Borough.

  • Hull (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Kingston-upon-Hull County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I he following statement shows the number of deaths and the death-rate for each of the last ten years and at ten-yearly intervals from 1888 :— Year. No. of Deaths. Death-rate 1928 3,800 fl2 8 1927 3,920 13-2 1926 3,776 *12-8 1925 3,931 13-2 1924 4,007 13-5 1923 3,379 114 1922 4,225 14-4 1921 3,787 13-0 1920 3,834 13-2 1919 4,286 15 1 1918 5,316 215 1908 4,422 16 3 1898 4,141 18 0 1888 3,297 163 f To two places of decimals 12-77. * „ „ „ 12-81. Full particulars as to the mortality amongst infants and children under five years of age appear in the Maternity and Child Welfare Section of this report (See page 155.) Age Distribution. Only 1,385 deaths, or approximately one-third of the total : were of persons aged 65 years and upwards ; there were 666 deaths under th i age of 5 years ; 137 of school children, that is, between 5 and 15 years ; 197 c' adolescents between 15 and 25 ; 457 died in the prime of life, from 25 to 45 yeani: and 958 in late middle life, from 45 to 65. The figures are similar to those of i927j except that there is a satisfactory reduction, namely, from 1,038 to 958 in the ag group 45 to 65. Ward Statistics. Appendix 2, page 183, gives the vital statistics for the who City from 1923 to 1928 and appendix 3, page 184, gives the Ward Statistics fc 1928. It must be noted, however, that with the lapse of time since the censi: and the extensive building operations which have gone on in certain districti the ward populations, as calculated, become increasingly unreliable, and too mui stress therefore must not be laid on any rates prepared therefrom. From tl| t figures as given it will be seen that the highest birth-rates were in East Centi « (27-0) and Alexandra (26-3) Wards, and the lowest, Newland (13-5) and Park (11- Wards. There has been a decrease from 1927 (from 27-5 to 27-0) in the ward I highest birth-rate (East Central), and also a decrease (from 15-0 to 11-2) in th I of the lowest (Park).