[Report 1901] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight R.D.C.

  • Isle of Wight (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1901
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Credit: [Report 1901] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and deducting these, the death-rate was 12‘ 17 per 1000. The deaths among strangers occurred for the most part in public institutions, only lf> deaths among strangers having occurred outside them so far as my information goes. The mean birth-rate in the ten years 1891-1000 was 24-1. and the mean death-rate was 157 per 1000 living, Comparing the mean birth-rate and the mean death-rate with the birth-rate and death-rate of the year under review, we find the birth-rate was 2-0 below, and the death-rate corresponded with the average. The birth-rate in England and Wales in 1901 was 28'5 per 1000 of the population, which is lower than that ol any other year on record. Compared with the average in the ten years 1889-1900, the birth-rate in 1901 shows a decrease of C4 per 1000. The death- rate in 1901 was 16*9 per 1000, which is T3 below the rate in the year immediately preceding, and the average rate in the ten years 1891-1900. The death-rate in rural districts—the areas outside the boundaries of urban sanitary districts—was 15\3 per 1000 of the rural population. The mean annual death- rate in country districts in the ten years 1891-1900 was 167 The birth-rate in the Isle of Wight Rural Sanitary District was 0-4 below the hi rth-rate of England and Wales in 1901, and 7'8 below the mean birth-rate in the ten years 1891-1900. The death-rate was T2 below the Mean-birth- rate and Death-rate in ten yearn Birth-rate in and death- rate in England and Wales. Comparison of the birth¬ rate and death-rate in tho I.W. Rural Sani¬ tary District with those of England und Walee.