[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford].

  • Romford (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1899]
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    2 The number of births registered during the year was 300, the birth-rate therefore being 28.5 per 1,000. The following table shows the Birth-rate and Death rate for the last six years. Romford. Birth-Rate. Death-Rate 1893 35.1 17.1 1894 32.3 14.3 1895 32.5 15.1 1896 35.8 12.3 1897 32.9 12.3 1898 28.5 15.2 Of the whole number of deaths, 9 were caused by zymotic diseases, the death-rate from this class of disease, which may be called preventable diseases, for the last four years, being respectively, 14, 17, 0 9, and 0.8 per 1,000 of the population. Seventy - four cases of infectious diseases were notified during 1898, a number considerably less than in the previous year, when 110 cases occurred. The improvement, however, although satisfactory, ought not to be considered as sufficient. A town of 10,500 inhabitants ought not to have 74 cases of infectious disease, when there has been no wave of epidemic disease (Scarlet Fever, for instance) passing over it. There must be a Sanitary failing some where, and I think it is to be found as suggested in a subsequent part of this report. The following table shows the causes of death, arranged in alphabetical order. There were registered during the year deaths of 8 persons who had exceeded the age of 80 years, whilst 2 persons died at the age of over 90; 53 children died under the age of one year.