[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Belper U.D.C.

  • Belper (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Belper U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    1/8
    Belpef llFbaD DisWet Goaneil. REPORT of the MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH For the Year 1896 Gentlemen, During the above period 197 deaths were registered. 108 males, 89 females. Of this number 46 took place in the Union Workhouse, the other parishes of the Union. Taking the have been as follows:— First Quarter Second ,, Third Fourth ,, 19 of these belonged to this district, and 27 to four quarters of the year seriatim the deaths District. Workhouse. Males. Females. Males. Females. 19 22 12 4 15 12 5 3 17 20 12 3 23 23 5 2 74 77 34 12 The gross death rate is 17*9 per thousand of the estimated population. The mean mortality is 13'7. The death rate for England and Wales, being I believe something like 17*1. The population in 1891, was 10420. I estimate that it has now reached to something like 10953, which from the number of new houses built and inhabited during the time, should be rather under than over the mark. The increase of the population for the year, is 180. The number of deaths during 1895 was 219, with a gross death rate of 23*1, and a mean death rate of 20*0. So from some cause or other the number of deaths has vastly decreased and consequently the death rate has sensibly diminished. The number of deaths ascribed to Zymotic or Preventable Diseases has been 16. Measles ... ^ death. Scarlet Fever ... ••• 2 ,, Typhoid Fever ... ... 1 Diarrhoea ... 10 ,, Croup ... ••• 1 >> Pyoemia ... ••• 1 The Zymotic Death Kate I estimate to be 1-4 per thousand of the population. During the year 1895 the number of deaths registered as having been caused by Zymotic Causes was 27, with a Zymotic Death Kate of 2*5. No death included in this category took place in the Union Workhouse.