Statistical examination of the Margate death-rate, for the five years, 1863-1867 : by order of the Council of the Borough of Margate / by Edward Mottley.

  • Mottley, Edward.
Date:
1868
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Credit: Statistical examination of the Margate death-rate, for the five years, 1863-1867 : by order of the Council of the Borough of Margate / by Edward Mottley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    popular resort ou the continent, and certainly not in any of the 623 districts of England and Wales. Should the increase continue in the same proportion, in a short space of time the deaths of strangers and inhabitants will be equal. Margate in this respect stands quite alone. The necessity of classifyiug the registration lists of districts situated similar to Margate has become so prominent that Dr. Farr in his appendix to the 24th report of the Registrar-General says— In large hospitals and lunatic asylums the mortality is so much higher than the rest of the population, that the mortality of the district deduced from the living and dying, including hospital patients, does not correctly express the mortality of the inhabitants of the place. Local inquirers are alone in a condition to correct effectively local derangements. The two previous publications of 1850 and 1862, relating to the public health of the town, were based upon a classified population. Continental statistical writers invariably classify the population, and with a greater degree of minuteness than is possible in English statistics. The mortality of the town and sub-district Margate for the 5 years 1863- 1867, stands thus;— Residents. Visitors. Hospitals. Total. 873 265 177 1,313 Annual Average 174 53 35 262 or, 17 to 1,000 resident. Di •. Fair's standard of normal health. Mortality from Epidemic, Endemic-Contagious (Zymotic) Diseases. Residents. Visitors. Hospitals. Total. 163 48 19 228 Annual Average 32 9 3 47 Deaths of Infants under One Year of Age. Births. Residents. Visitors. Total. 1,485 176 43 219 Annual Average 35 8 43 Annual infant mortality, 10 per cent.