[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Bath City & County Borough.

  • Bath (England). City and County Borough Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Bath City & County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infantile Mortality. The number of deaths under 1 = 146—is above that for the last two years and also the mortality from i to5. The proportion of deaths under i to 1,000 Births registered=i3i—is also higher and for a similar reason the deaths from Measles and Whooping Cough=50 and 37 respectively, or a total of 87 deaths out of 97. Mortality from 60 Upwards. This record includes 264 deaths from 60 to 80, and 78 deaths 80 and upwards, or in the ratio of 4^9 per 1,000 annually from 60 to 80, and of i‘4 per 1,000 annually 80 and upwards. This is corroborative evidence of the longevity of Bath, many of the deaths recorded were very little short of a century. Birth Rate. The number of Births registered during the year 1894 was 1,112, being 201 above the deaths registered. Although Bath does not count as a city in which there is a rapidly increasing population, and probably never may be in that position, I think an increase in 4 years of 500, as I have pointed out in another place, will, if continued, prevent her effacement. The District of Lyncombe and Widcombe takes the first place in assisting towards this increment of the Population, and Walcot 2nd. Bathwick shows a diminution compared with the Population in 1891. District Mortality and Birth Rate. Walcot presents the highest Death rate for the year, but it is practically a low rate—18-3—the Birth rate is 20’2. Lyncombe and Widcombe has a Death rate of 17‘4 per 1,000 annually and a comparatively high Birth rate of 25*9. Bathwick is apparently at a standstill with a Death rate of 11-9 and a Birth rate of 117. This calculation is founded upon the District Population separ- ately corrected to end of 1894. It should be remembered that Walcot District is debited with all deaths in the Royal United Hospital and Royal Mineral Water Hospital, and Lyncombe and Widcombe District with all deaths in the Workhouse.