[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough.

  • Doncaster (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Birth llate. other reports and inquiries depend upon a fair numbering of the population being obtained, I hope before the re-arrangement of the Wards comes into operation some endeavour will be made, such as by a local census-taking, to ascertain the actual numbers inhabiting each of the new wards. During 1893 there were 916 births registered -males 451, females 465 ; the number was larger than in the previous year. The birth-rate, 33 3 per 1,000, was rather over the average rate of the previous ten years, and considerably above the birth-rate for the whole of England and Wales in 1893, which was 30*8 per 1,000. The birth-rate in the West Ward was 36, and both in the East and North Wards it was 30 per 1,000. Dentil It He. There were 600 deaths registered in the borough last year—327 males and 273 females; 24 of these were persons who died at the Workhouse or the Infirmary, who were strangers to the town. These were deducted, but three deaths at Carr House, which is out- side the borough boundaries, must be added. The corrected number of deaths during the year was therefore 579, and the death-rate for the year was 21 per 1,000. For the whole of England and Wales the death-rate last year was 19-2 per 1,000. The average rate of the previous ten years in this town was 18-7 per 1,000. The deaths of Doncaster people at the Workhouse and the Infirmary are divided among the population of the three wards—the death-rate in the West Ward was 21, in the North 2D7, and the East 19'6 per 1,000. Some of the causes for the increased death-rate will be referred to under the fol- lowing groups. There were 83 deaths from diseases in the zymotic group; 43 of these were caused by diarrhoea, as compared with 10 from that cause in 1892. 34 were among young children under five years of age. 9 deaths were caused by scarlet fever. ) > 5 ? 8 5 J ? 5 4 ? * 5 ? *> O 5 ? n enteric do. whooping cough, diphtheria, measles. 1 > 9 small-pox. membranous croup. The death-rate was equal to 3 per 1,000 as compared with an