[Report 1892] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight Rural District Council.

  • Isle of Wight (England). Rural District Council. n 83204987.
Date:
1892
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Credit: [Report 1892] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Wight Rural District Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mortality from certain diseases. Zymotic diseases Zymotic death- rate. Phthisis. of 4 months, was accidentally suffocated in bed at Grodshill; a man fell from a load of- straw and was killed at Thorley; an artilleryman was crushed by the slipping of a rope attached to a gun in Sandown fort; a convict w'as killed b}T a mass of earth falling upon his neck and back at Parkhurst; and 2 men committed suicide, one by cutting his throat at North- wood, the other by swallowing strong solution of ammonia at Osborne. The deaths by violence were equal to 2T per cent, of all the deaths, and to a rate of 0'4 per 1,000 of the popu¬ lation of the District. The deaths from violence in England and Wales were equal to a rate of 0’62 per 1,000 living. The percentage of deaths from violence in your District during the past ten years was as follows :— 1883. 1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890. 1891. 1892. 3-0 2-5 3-4 3-3 4-2 3-8 5-9 3*4 D4 2T The 546 deaths from all causes included .— 2 attributed to scarlatina. 8 1 6 7 12 b* i tt tt tt tt 11 ft >t tt tt tt 11 tt diphtheria, membraneous croup, enteric fever, measles. whooping cough, diarrhoea. 43 The 43 deaths attributed to these principal zymotic diseases were equal to a death-rate of l-43 per 1,000 living, and were 7-8 per cent, of the deaths from all causes. The zymotic death-rate in the four preceding years was 0*42, P6, 0'67, and 1*64 per 1,000 respectively. In England and Wales the deaths attributed to these zymotic diseases corresponded to a rate of P90 per 1,000 living, against P86, 2-22, 2T4, and 1'83 in the immediately preceding four years. The average annual death-rate from zymotic diseases in England and Wales during the last decennium (1881-90) was 2'30 per 1,000, against 3'95, 4T5, and 3'38 per 1,000 respectively in the three decennias comprised in the period 1851-80. 64 deaths from phthisis were registered. 20 persons, of whom 17 were strangers to the Wight, died from this disease in the Hospital for Consumption. Of the six deaths from phthisis in the Workhouse, five occurred among those who did not belong to the District. The death-rate from phthisis in 1892 was equal to 2T6 per 1,000, or, deducting the deaths from consumption which occurred among strangers, 1*40 per 1,000. The percentage of deaths from phthisis to all the deaths was 11'7, or, excluding the deaths among strangers, 7'6. In 1892, 9 per cent, of the deaths which took place in your District among Isle of Wight people occurred from con¬ sumption. This is 0'3 per cent, below the mean percentage