[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Stratford-upon-Avon U.D.C. / Borough.

  • Stratford-upon-Avon (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Stratford-upon-Avon U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Death-Rate for 1893>s 167 per 1,000. This is the “ corrected ” rate, and in estimating it I have deducted from the gross number or deaths, those of persons dying in the Urban District who belonged outside it. The fact that the Union Workhouse and the Hospital are situated in the Borough renders this correction necessary. The gross number of Deaths is 156 (Males 74, Females 82), and of these I have deducted 16. The following are the Death-rates which have been estimated for the Urban District since 1880 : Year.1880. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. 1885. 1886. Death Rate... r8• 7 i4-o 14^9 137 207 14.4 13-2 Year.1887. 1888. 1889. 1890. 1891. 1892. 1893. Death Rate... i2‘6 i4'8 14 3 i8-4 i8-o3 2i-o7* 167 * Uncorrected. The Infantile Mortality of the year is 807 per 1,000 registered Births. This is highly satisfactory, as the average of this rate in the Urban District is a little over 100 per 1,000 registered births, which is itself a satisfactory rate of Infantile Mortality. There is no more certain index of the sanitary conditfon of district than the rate of Infantile Mortality, inasmuch as infants are particularly susceptible to insanitary conditions. And this prominently is the case when the season has been unusually one of high temperature, as was the case in the past year. There were 19 deaths of infants in the year and 236 births registered of which in were male and 123 female. The Zymotic Death-Rate is ‘9 per 1,000. There have been eight deaths from zymotic disease of which one was from diphtheria, one from enteric fever, five from diarrhoea, and one from puerperal fever. /