[Report 1889] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight Rural District Council.

Isle of Wight (England). Rural District Council. n 83204987.

Date:: 1889

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Credit: [Report 1889] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight Rural District Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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belong to the District. As compared with the average death- rate1. of England and Wales, and with that in small towns and country parishes, the death-rate in the Isle of Wight Rural Sanitary District during the past seven years was as follows :— M CO CO Eng 4'3 ;land and Wales, below the average. Rural Districts. 2*5 below the average I 884 5'9 > 5 3*7 1885 3-6 2-1 ,, 1886 3*6 >> 2 ’ I ,, »—< 00 00 —I 2-9 i*3 1888 °’5 o*6 above the average. 1889 i*4 0-2 The death-rate of males at all ages was 18*3 per 1000, and of females 14*5 per 1000, 61 infants died before tlmy were a year old The rate of infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to registered births, was equal to 79 per 1000 against 108 in 1888 and 87 in 1887. The corresponding rate in England and Wales in 1889 was equal to 144 per 1000 against 136 and 145 in the two preceding years. 90 children, or 19*1 per cent, of the deaths, died under 5 years. 169 per¬ sons, or 36 per cent, of the deaths, died at or over 60, nf whom 48 were between 60 and 70, 69 between 70 and 80, 47 were between 80 and 90, and 5 were 90 and over. The widow of a dairyman at Gatcombe died at 92, which was the greatest age at death registered. 77 persons who did not belong to the District either died within it or their bodies were cast up on its shores by the waves. Of those who died natural deaths, 40 came from different parts of England to the Hospital for Consumption at St. Lawrence, and 22, who were inhabitants of the Isle of Wight but not of the District, died in the Workhouse. In March, the dead body of a man wras found on the shore at Niton, and in August another body, washed up by the sea, was discovered at the foot of the cliff at Compton. Nearly at the end of the year a disastrous collision between two steamers, the “ Cleddy ” and the “ Isle of Cyprus,” occurred off the Wight. The “Cleddy” sank, the crew escaping in two boats, one of which was swamped and all its occupants were drowned. The bodies of ten of them came ashore at Niton, and three at St. Lawrence. 28 persons died a violent death, and the deaths of two others, prisoners at Parkhurst Prison, were indirectly due to violence, one having died from the effects of a gun-shot wound self inflicted before imprisonment, the other from the effects of swallowing a raw potato. Two deaths were occa¬ sioned by falls, 1 from a scaffold, 1 from the Culver Cliff, 1, an infant, was starved by the neglect of a drunken mother, 2, a boy of two and a woman of sixty, died from burns, 3, a woman and two children, were accidentally suffocated, 1 com- Male and Female Death- Rate. Infant mortality. Mortality of the aged. Deaths of strangers to the District Deaths by violence.