[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Devonport County Borough.

Devonport (England). County Borough Council.

Date:: 1894

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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Devonport County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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De«onport Urban Sanitary Authority, S'he number of deaths from all causes was 920 or 17 per 1,000. The number of births 1,466 which is 27.1 per 1,000. Deaths from zymotic diseases 79, or 1.4 per 1,000. Of these 19 were from Measles, 7 from Scarlatina, 31 from Whooping Cough, 9 from Enteric Fever, and 4 from Diarrhoea. From Eespiratory Diseases 161 died ; from Tubercular 141. The infantile mortality was 190 under 1 year, or 129.6 per 1000 births. Total under 5 years 303, or 206.7 per 1,000 births. There were 18 deaths from InHuenza : 10 in January^ 2 in February, 3 in April, 2 in May, 1 in July.