[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Herefordshire Combined District/s (Bromyard R.D.C., Dore R.D.C., Hereford R.D.C., Ledbury R.D.C., Leominster R.D.C., Bromyard U.D.C.).

  • Herefordshire Combined Districts.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Herefordshire Combined District/s (Bromyard R.D.C., Dore R.D.C., Hereford R.D.C., Ledbury R.D.C., Leominster R.D.C., Bromyard U.D.C.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Although loo much importance must not be attached to a high death-rate in a single year in a district with a population of less than 10,000 persons, we may profitably enquire whether there is an undue preponderance of deaths at any particular group of ages or from one or more diseases. Table A enables us to find that 5b per cent, of the deaths took place at the extremes of life under one year and over 65 years of age. This percentage was b°> 61, 52, 62, 63, and 50 in 1907, 1906, 1905, 1904, 1903, and 1902 respectively. Table A. The following table gives the ages at death during 1908 in various groups for the Bromyard Rural District, the registration sub-districts, and the six largest parishes. All Ages. U nderj 1 year 1 1 to 5. 5 to 15. 15 to 25. 25 to 45. ]” ;i5 to 65. 65 to 75. 75 to 85. Over 86. Rural District 102 11 5 I I II 26 26 19 2 Sub-Districts : Bromyard 33 I 1 I I 5 8 10 6 0 Bishops Frome .. 45 6 4 c 0 •> 12 IO 8 2 Brockhampton . . . 24 4 0 ° O 3 6 6 5 0 Parishes : Bishops Frome... 10 1 1 0 O 0 5 I 0 2 Cradley *9 1 2 0 0 2 2 6 6 0 Linton 8 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 Much Cowarne... 7 2 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 Norton 4 1 0 0 0 1 | 0 2 0 0 Whitbourne 9 0 | 1 1 o j 1 1 2 3 0 Corrected Death-rate.—The death-rate among females is lower than it is among males, and it is also lower at ages between 5 years and 55 years than it is below or above this period, and as the proportion of females to males and of persons living at different age-periods varies in different localities, it is obviously necessary to make certain corrections if we are to compare with accuracy the death-rates in two or more districts. In order to make a true comparison with the rest of the country I have worked out the factor of correction for Bromyard Rural District and the death-rate in 1908 thus corrected was 10.7 per 1,000, compared with a corrected rate of 13.8 per 1,000 in rural England and Wales. The corrected average death- rate in the previous ten years in Bromyard Rural District was 12.9 per 1,000.