[Report 1886] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford.

  • Herefordshire Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities.
Date:
1886
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Credit: [Report 1886] / Medical Officer of Health, Combined Rural Sanitary Authorities of the County of Hereford and the Urban Sanitary Authority of the City of Hereford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITY OE THE CITY OF HEREFORD AND THE COMBINED RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITIES OF THE SAME COUNTY. Thirteenth Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health. (Pursuant to the Regulations of the Local Government Board.) THE URBAN SANITARY AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF HEREFORD. Population (Census 1881), 19,822. Area in acres, 2,417. Houses, 4,392, of which 206 are void. Aggregate number of people to a house, about 4'7. Parishes, 6. December 31, 1886. Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, Taking as a guide the order, dated March, 1880, issued by the Local Government Board, and by the 18th article, section 14 of that order, it is prescribed that the Medical Officer of Health shall “ prepare an annual report, to be made to the end of December in each year,” &c., and from further instructions received from such Board dated 4th May, 1886, calling upon me to give a more detailed account of the Sanitary Disti-ict at the close of each year, and of the measures of sanitary improvement which, in my opinion, require to be carried out by your Authority, and, further, to re-model such annual report according to specimens forwarded hy them, these special orders I have endeavoured to carry out to the best of my ability ; but before doing so, I shall adhere to the plan I have hitherto adopted, by commencing first with the usual formal record of births and deaths occurring in the city for the last twelve months, as also the causes of such deaths. During the year 1886 the number of deaths registered for the whole of the city was 425 ; this is inclusive of the 38 in the Infirmary and 57 in the Workhouse, and, calculated on a popu¬ lation of 19,954, gives a I’ate of mortality of 20T per 1000, but deducting the 95 in the Infirmary and Workhouse, the rate is 16'5 or just over Group 2. The bii-ths numbered 509, giving a birth-rate of 24'1 per 1,000. With reference to sex, 209 were males, and 300 females.