[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnard Castle Local Board U.D.C.

  • Barnard Castle (England). Local Board of Health.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Barnard Castle Local Board U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C^pirE Itec^it BejiRD ©f PE;qwji. flnnuol Hepoi4, 189^. Genti^embn, I. • During the course of the year 1893, there occurred within the area of the Barnard Castle Docal Board of Health, 112 deaths, the largest number ever recorded since the year 1879. But out of this number of deaths, 14 were of persons belonging to other districts, and only brought for treatment in the Teesdale Union Workhouse Infirmary. Thus the total number must be reduced to 98, producing a true annual rate of mortality of 22*57 1,000 of population as per census, 1891. As the general death-rate was considerably higher during the past year, so was also the Infantile Mortality, the number of deaths under five years of age reaching the figure of 30, as against 26 during the preceding year. Twenty-one out of this number were infants under one year of age. Out of the 30 deaths only three were ascribed to Bronchial Affections ; six were caused by Diarrhoea, and one by Measles, the remainder being all due to Congenital Weakness or other Infantile Diseases. Thirty-six deaths occurred over 65 years of age, the oldest person being a female aged 87 years. Only five persons exceeded 80 years of life, their average age being 83’6 years. With reference to Sex, the deaths were distributed amongst 58 Males and 54 Females. Zymotic or Infectious Diseases accounted for five deaths only, making 4*46 per cent, of total deaths, or 1*12 per 1,000 of population.