[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Turton Local Board / U.D.C.

  • Turton (England). Local Board.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Turton Local Board / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V .To the Urban District Council of Turton, Gentlemen, i have the honour of submitting my annual report upon the -Sanitary condition of your District, together with a factory character o4 which is, I am pleased to say, unexampled in the sanitary history the district; uhe death rate, the infantine death rate and the Zymotic death rate, all being the lowest on record, whilst otherfeames of my report present most favourable feauurcs. ihe total number of births was 1.51, a decrease of 19 upon that of the previous yea?’, and slightly below the average annual number. The bi?’th rate was 21.2 per thousand of population as against 22.9 per thousand in the -year 1392. The total number of deaths at all ages, and from all causes, was 77, the lowest on record; equal to a rate of 10.3 per thousand of population, as against 13.5 during 1892 and 15.5, the average for the past five years. The number of deaths of children under 5 3/cars in age was 24^ and of infants under one year in age 11; the numbers for the year 1392 being 97 and 2G respectively. The mortality of infants in proportion to the births was at the rate of 72.3 per thousand, in comparison with 211.7 per thousand in 1392. The number of fatal cases of Zymotic diseases was 1 or a rate of 0.1 per thousand, the number and rate for 1392 being 20, and 2.3 respectively. The Phthisis mortality was at the rats of 1.6 per thousand, and the Bronchitis mortality 2.3 per thousand, whilst in 1892, the former was 0.93, and the latter 5.07 per thousand. The district was singularly free from epidemics of disease of any hind; the only instances of diseases of a Zymotic nature were as follows