[Report 1870] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough.

  • Leicester (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1870
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Credit: [Report 1870] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicester Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mortality per 1000 was 31.179, and as it is with this year that the mortality of 1870 should be compared, we find a considerable relative decrease in the mortality as compared with it. Deducting now the adult deaths, 1120, from the total population, and from the total deaths, the ratio of infantile mortality under five years of age will be 15 . 485 per 1000 ; the ratio in 1869 having been 13.394; and after deducting, in like manner, the children’s deaths, (under five years of age, 1419,) from the total mortality, and from the total population, the ratio of mortality for the whole population above five years of age will be 12.263, it having been 12.050 in 1869. It will be seen, therefore, from these figures that the comparative increase of the mortality of 1870, as compared with 1869, has been chiefly in children under five years of age ; the increase in the deaths of the population above that age having been merely fractional. Of the total number of deaths, 338 were unregistered, or registered by unlicensed practitioners ; the proportion being nearly 1 /7th of the whole, as in 1869. Birth Rate.—The Birth Rate for the year IS70 was in the ratio of 40.97 per 1000 of the estimated population ; the births for each quarter were ns follows viz :— March ... 1010 | September ... 946 June ... 979 i December ... 865 making altogether, 3800 births in the year ; an increase of 40 over the births in 1869, which amounted to 3760 ; and an excess of births over deaths (corrected) of 271. It will be remarked that the births in the March quarter were higher than in any other of the quarters of the year :