[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough.

  • Chesterfield (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    death from enteritis, and two infant deaths from gastritis, would raise the rate to 1.66. The rate was 0.64 in the North Ward, 2.63 in the South, and 1.70 in the West. Infant Mortality.—The number of deaths of infants under one year of age was 124, which is the smallest since the 120 of 1894, when the population was much smaller, and the 104 of 1905. It compares favourably with the decennial average of 155, and is equal to an Infant Mortality Rate of 140 per 1000 births, as compared with an average of 174 in the previous decade. The only other lower rates recorded in recent years were 132 in 1894 and 119 in 1905. The rate compares unfavourable with the 109 of England and Wales, the 118 of 76 great towns, and the 111 of the 143 smaller towns. The rate in the North Ward was 125, in the South, 149, and in the West, 142. The rate was 153 among legitimate and 237 among illegitimate children. The infant mortality formed 27 per cent, of the total deaths as compared with an average of 32 in the previous ten years. Although the reduction in the infant mortality rates of the last two years must be ascribed in part