[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Whitehaven Borough.

  • Whitehaven (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Whitehaven Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There were eighty-seven deaths of infants under one year of age, giving an infantile death-rate of 4*5 per thousand of estimated population per annum, which is 0*26 below the average of 4*76 for the ten preceding years. The number of births registered during the year being, as before mentioned, six hundred and three, the infant death-rate per thousand births was 144*28, which is 4*66 below the average of 148*94 for the ten preceding years. Of children between one and five years of age there were fifty-six deaths registered during the year, making, with the eighty seven deaths of infants under one year, a total of one hundred and forty-three deaths of children under five years of age, which is equivalent to a death-rate of 7*4 of estimated population per annum, and 0*02 above the average of 7*38 for the previous ten years. Seventy-three deaths of persons over sixty-five years of age were registered, giving a senile death-rate of 3*78 per thousand per annum, or 0*7 below the average of 4*48 for the ten preceding years. From the eight principal zymotic diseases enumerated in Table VI., there were registered thirty-one deaths, giving a zymotic death-rate of i*6 per thousand per annum, which is 0*64 below the average of 2*24 for the previous ten years. Thus it will be seen that the rates for the year 1908 do not vary to any great extent from the average of the