[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Middlesex County Council.

  • Middlesex (England). County Council. n 99020326.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Middlesex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART I.—THE COUNTY. C 11 A P T E R I. — VI T A L S T A TI S T 1C S. Section 1,—Public Institutions. As in previous years, it is necessary in the first place to take account of the public institutions. These institutions give rise to more troubles and complications, and occupy more time than all the rest of the statistics together. The diverse manner in which they are treated is most confusing ; in one District the population, births, and deaths in the workhouse are all included in the statistics, in another all excluded, in a third, part included and part excluded, in a fourth, the population and births are included, and the deaths excluded, so that no uniform method is adopted. To the Report for the year 1892 was appended a list of those public institutions in the County of Middlesex taken into account by the Registrar-General in the Returns of the Census of 1891. In the Report for 1893, a more or less complete account of the public institutions in the County was given, and their effect upon the statistics of the County discussed. In the Report for 1891 the method of treating them, and the effects of public institutions were further discussed, and again further in the 1895 Report. Briefly, the conclusions come to were that the population, births, and deaths in hospitals, asylums, and workhouses