Report on the sanitary condition of the borough of Birkenhead for the year 1879 / by Francis Vacher.

  • Vacher, Francis.
Date:
1880
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the borough of Birkenhead for the year 1879 / by Francis Vacher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    occurred. This Street Register is divided into,three parts—the part marked “ A,” including the streets and places in the old Bir- kenhead Improvement District; the part marked “B ” the streets and places in Tranmere and Oxton; and the part marked “ C ” the streets and places in the incorporated portion of Bebington. Opposite each street or place is the number of deaths, from all causes and from zymotic diseases, registered as occurring in that street or place during the year. In the headings to the different parts of ’ this table (and in Tables I, II, and HI) we have not placed the names of townships as indicating the locality referred to, but the names of wards. Thus the old Improvement District appears as ■ Cleveland, Claughton, Grange, and Argyle Wards; Tranmere and. Oxton appear as Oxton, Egerton, Clifton, and Mersey Wards; and the portion of Bebington incorporated appears as Bebington Ward. As we felt that particulars of the number of deaths from all causes, zymotic diseases and causes not certified, in each ward, would prove interesting, and as the Street Register does not afford this informa- tion, we have drawn up the table here submitted. A few of the deaths could not be classed, as many of the streets in the Borough run through two or more wards, or form the boundaries between . wards, and the person acting as informant to the registrar is occa- sionally unable to give the number of the house in which the death . took place; and many sudden deaths occur at the docks, or the; railway extension in connection therewith, and the precise locality ■ is never recorded. Wards. Deaths from all Causes. Deaths from Zymotic DUeases. Deaths from <^anses Uncertified M. r. M. F H. F. Cleveland 157 130 39 34 7 2 Claughton.. 10 11 2 3 • « . . Grange 188 222 42 44 8 4 Argyle 168 153 31 31 3 5 (Locality not Specified^ 14 5 • • • • •• Oxton 16 20 1 5 Egerton 55 68 13 14 • • 1 CUfton 96 101 18 21 2 2 Mersey 47 44 10 10 2 1 (Locafity not Specified) .. 7 2 •• • • • • • • Bebington 13 14 2 2 •• ••