[Report 1887] / Medical Officer of Health, Berkshire Combined Sanitary District.

  • Berkshire Combined Sanitary District.
Date:
1887
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Credit: [Report 1887] / Medical Officer of Health, Berkshire Combined Sanitary District. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vegetable matter, but not with sewage proper. The only death from this complaint during the year was one of a young infant. The registered births for the year were 293 (M. 142, F. 151), being rather fewer than in 1886, and the rate per 1,000 of the population, estimated to the middle of the year, was 26*1 or three per 1,000 below the mean rate of the combined districts. The deaths registered were 174, to which 17 must be added of persons belonging to the district but dying outside (in the Union House and the County Lunatic Asylum), the corrected num- ber is therefore 191 (M. 108, F.83), of whom 54 (the same number as last year) were children below five years of age, while 85 were above 60. The death rate was 17 per 1,000, being an increase of 0*5 upon that of 1886, due to a small increase in the number of infants dying under a year old, and of deaths between the ages of 25 and 60—see Tables IV A and B. Only 13 deaths were due to zymotic diseases, being, with one exception, infants and young children. I have already referred to these, and they were at the low rate of n per 1,000 of the population, or 6*8 % of the mortality from all causes—Table VI. Consumption occasioned 16 deaths, half as many again as in the previous year, and at the rate of 1*4 per 1,000, or 8'4 % of total mortality. With few exceptions the deaths occurred between the ages of 20 and 35. Chest inflammations were fatal to 28 persons, of whom nearly a third were infants and children under five. This is about the usual average, and the rate is 2*5 per 1,000, or 14-6 % of the deaths from all causes. Wasting and convulsive diseases of children under five ac- counted for nearly the same number (29)—see Tables IV and VI —reference to which, and to Table V, will shew that the mor- tality for the year in this district has been very nearly at the mean rates of the combination in all respects. The inquests on deaths from injuries of various kinds (12) wera however above the average. Ten of these were accidental and two were cases of suicide.