[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Bootle County Borough.

  • Bootle (Lancashire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1918
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Credit: [Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Bootle County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G The crude death-rate of the 00 great towns during 1918 was 18.2 compared with 14.6 in 1917. The death-rate in Bootle for the decenniuin 1908-1917 was 17.0 and for 1898-1907, 19.1. This year the highest death-rate, was in Mersey W'ard, 24.9 ; Ivnow- sley has the second highest rate, 24.7 ; Derby has the lowest rate 14.8. The death-rate during the first quarter of the 3'ear was 16.8; during the second, 15.3 and the third, 14.9, but during the fourth quarter, it jumped up to 30.0 as a result of the outbreak of influenza. , Mortality in Relation to Sex.—There were 743 deaths of males and 686 of females. It is difficult to estimate accurately the number of males and females in the population but the figures point to the death- rate of males being 22.7 per 1,000 males and that of females 16.8 pei' 1,000 females. The death-rate amongst males has increased much more than that of females, the explanation beiiog that some 7,000 healthy males at ages when the natural mortality is least were throughout the year in His Majesty’s Forces, and the deaths of males thei*efore were not per 1,000 of the normal male population, Fiit per 1,000 of the male population deprived of its healthiest units. Infantile Mortality.—'There were 210 deaths of infants, compared with 187 in 1917, 227 in 1916 and 292 in 1915. The infantile mortality rate was 116 per 1,000 births compared with 99 in 1917, 109 in 1916, 142 in 1915 and 125 in the decennium 1908-1917. The rate of infantile mortality amongst males was 132, and-amongst females 110. Through- out England and Wales the rate of infantile mortality was 97 per 1,000 births: in the 96 great towns it was 106. Table IV (page 60 ), gives the causes of the infantile deaths; the more impoi-tant were :—Bronchitis and pnemnonia 55, diarrheea 36, prematurity 42, atrophy, debility and marasmus 25. The rate of infantile mortality amongst legitimate infants was 111 per 1,000 births and amongst the illegitimates, 254. This year Linacre Ward had the highest rate, viz., 131, and Orrell the second highest, 127. The lowest