[Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C.

  • West Lancashire (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1902
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Credit: [Report 1902] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Population.—This is estimated to the middle of the year, the basis being the number of Inhabited Houses, which the Assistant Overseers kindly furnish me with. The number of Inhabited Houses, as supplied to me, was 5,432, being an increase of 49 over the previous year. Ainsdale had 8 more, Aughton 3, Bickerstaffe 3, Bispham 2, Downholland 1, Formby 17, Lydiate 3, Maghull 4, Melling 1, Rufford 1, Scaris- brick 4, Tarleton 15; Altcar had 2 less, Halsall 2, Hesketh 7, North Meols 2 ; Simonswood had the same number. From these figures I estimate that at the middle of the year the Population was 27,398, including 474 in the various Institutions. • Birth Rate.—Six hundred and thirty-eight Births were registered in the District during the year, 335 boys and 303 girls : to this number must be added 3 which occurred in the Ormskirk Workhouse, giving a total of 641. These 641 Births are equal to an Annual Birth-rate of 23*39 per 1,000 of the population living, which is 2T2 below that for 1901, and 3*61 below the average of the 10 preceding years. Seventeen of these Births were illegitimate, being 2-6 per cent, of the whole number. Death Rate.—The Deaths registered as having occurred in the District during the year were 367, of which number 182 were males, and 185 females. To this number must be added the deaths of 18 persons belonging to the District which took place in the Ormskirk Workhouse, 1 in the.Northern Hospital, Liver¬ pool, and 1 in the Ormskirk Isolation Hospital; and the deaths of 4 persons in the Southport Borough Isolation Hospital situate in North Meols, of 1 in Manor House Epileptic Home, Maghull, of 1 in the Liverpool Union Convalescent Home, Maghull, and of 1 belonging to Lathom in the Aughton Isolation Hospital, must be deducted. This gives the net total of 380, and an Annual Death-rate of 13'86 per 1,000 of the population living, This is -01 less than that of 1901, and 1T9 less than the average of the 10 preceding years.