[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Leatherhead U.D.C.

Leatherhead (England). Urban District Council.

Date:: 1900

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Report ot the Medical Officer of Health, with regard to the Year, 1900. 1.—Vital Statlsltcs : Births and Deaths. 1. The Population of the district at the Census, 1881, was 3533, and at the Census, 1891, it was 4305. Assuming that it has increased at the same rate since the census 1891 as it did during the preceding decade, it may be estimated at 5100 persons in the middle of the year under review. 2. The number of Births registered in the district during the year was 103 (as against 116 in the previous year), which represents a Birth-Rate of 20-2 per 1000 of the estimated population. (See also Table I. at the end of the report.) 3. The number of Deaths registered in the district during the year was 60 (as against 61 in the previous year), to which must be added 13 deaths in the Epsom Workhouse, in the Joint Isolation Hospital, and in the County Asylum, of persons belonging to the district. This gives a total of 73 deaths (as against 71 in the previous year), which represents an Annual Death-Rate of 13-9 per 1000 of the estimated population. 4. As to the Infant Mortality. The deaths, during the year, of Infants under one Year, were eleven in number (as against twenty-one in the previous year), and were at the rate of 107 per 1000 births registered. 5. The deaths from Pulmonary Consumption were 11 in number (as against 5 in the previous year), and were at the rate of about 2'0 per 1000 of the population, which is above the previous average rate. 6. The deaths from other Lung Diseases (pleurisy, pneumonia and bronchitis), were 10 in number (as against 6 in the previous year), and were at the rate of 2‘0 per 1000 of the population. 7. Influenza was unusually prevalent, and caused five deaths.