[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Rothwell (Northamptonshire) U.D.C.

  • Rothwell (Northamptonshire, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Rothwell (Northamptonshire) U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH OF TIIE ROTHWELL URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. Gentlemen, Allow me to present my fifth Annual Report on the Sanitary state of the Rothwell Urban District. We may sum up the Vital Statistics of the Town of Rothwell as follows. Area of Sanitary District, 3476 acres. Population estimated at 4110. Density of population, 1T8 inhabitant per acre. Births, 136. Males, 70; Females, 66. Birth rate 33-09 per 1000. Deaths, 78. Males, 46; Females, 36. Death rate, 18-9 per 1000. Zymotic Death rate, 2-6. Infant mortality under one year, 16D7 per 1000 births. Increase of population, 14.11 per 1000. Of the 78 Deaths, 22 were under 1 year, 18 under 5 years, 1 under 15 years, 3 under 25 years, 6 under 45 years, 9 under 65 years, 14 under 80 years, 5 were over 80 years but under 90 years. The Diseases as returned by Certificate were as follows:— Phthisis 3 Enteritis 4 Old Age 4 Chronic Bronchitis 6 Apoplexy 3 Valvular Disease of Heart 5 Cardiac Dropsy 1 Hepatitis 2 Nephritis. 2 Premature Birth 4 Atrophy 10 Tubercular Mening-itis 1 Influenza 2 Meningitis 1 Convulsions 3 Pneumonia 1 Paralysis 1 Accidental Suffocation Inquest 1 Cancer 1 Malig. Disease of Pyloris 1 >* „ Liver 1 Cyanosis 1 Puerperal Embolism 1 ,, Eclampsia 1 Scarlatina 1 Measles 10 Croup 1 Rupture of Bowels and Peritonitis 1 Diarrhoea and Exhaustion 1 Dentition 1 Addisons Disease 1 Hydrochephalus, Acute 1 Caries of the Hip Joint 1 78