[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Maidstone U.D.C. / Borough.

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

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    The Average Age at time of Death. 1893. East. West. Whole Borough. 1st Quarter . 45-58 43-56 44-64 2nd „ .. 32-63 31-36 32-05 3rd „ . 22-50 32-46 26-29 4th „ 37-47 34-06 35-93 Whole year . 34-13 35-83 34-88 Average in past years.. 32-76 33-30 32-94 For the year as a whole, the age at death was a little above, for two of the quarters singly, it was below the average, for the first quarter it was the highest ever recorded, on the other hand, with two exceptions in the 3rd quarter, it was the lowest. The reasons for this are the prevalence of Influenza, which was especially fatal to elderly people during the 1st quarter, and of Diarrhoea, which was especially fatal to infants in the 3rd quarter; these two circumstances, operating in opposite directions as regards age at death, in a measure balanced one another, but for the deficit we have shown to prevail with respect to our infant popu¬ lation the diarrhoeal mortality probably would have been more conspicuous, and the consequent reduction of the average age at death would have been greater; be that as it may, our General Infant Mortality was by no means unsatisfactory, for we find by the following table that the deaths of infants under one year, per thousand born, were but 111, against a general average for England and Wales of 149.