[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Keswick U.D.C.

  • Keswick (Cumbria, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Keswick U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT. There were 128 Births in Keswick during the year 1893, as against 111 in 1892. The population for the middle of the year, calculated on the supposition that the rate of increase is the same as during the 10 years previous to the last census, is 4,078. I am sorry to say that the low Death-rate on which I was able to congratulate you at the end of the first half of the year has not been maintained. The Deaths for the whole year have been 74, giving the (for Keswick) unusually high Death-rate of 18T4 per thousand. On referring to the Tables for information as to the ages at which these Deaths occurred, we find that the number of adults and children over 5 who died during the year was 43, as against 44 in 1889, 41 in 1890, 49 in 1891, and 45 in 1892, and w~as therefore well under the average. The increased mortality then was confined to infants under 5, of whom the large number of 31 died, against 21 in 1889, 22 in 1890, 20 in 1891, and 12 in 1892. In looking for the causes of this increase, we find from the Tables that, though Scarlet Fever was prevalent during the latter part of the year, it was only the cause- of 1 infant death, while Diarrhoea caused the deaths of 4 infants, making the total