[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Shanklin U.D.C.

  • Shanklin (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Shanklin U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE ANNUAL REPORT (1909) of the MEDICAL OFFICER OE HEALTH for the URBAN DISTRICT OP SHANKLIN * Gentlemen, During the past year there have been registered within your district seventy-five (75) births : forty-seven (47) Males and twenty-eight (28) Females. Five (5) of these children were of illegitimate birth, viz., four (4) boys and one (1) girl. The il legit innate birth-rate is therefore sixty-six (56) per 1000 births registered. The actual birth-rate i-i 14.8 per 1000 of population, which is 2.8 per 1000 more t an was registered last year. While, however, the birth-rate is ; ,.8 per 1000 more than last year (when it was exceptionally low, even for this district), it has Just reached about the average for your district, which is ha'- itually very much below the birth-rate of the country generally. One obvious reason for this low birth-rate is that a very considerable number of old people find their way here to spend their declining years. Whether t- is is the sole cause of lo.v birth-rate, it is very difficult to say. There have been during the past year registered within this district fifty-two (52) deaths, consisting of eatactly the same number of Males and Females, namely, twenty-six (26) of each. ♦ c There occurred the deaths of two people in public institutions