[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley R.D.C.

  • Chorley (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tlie Infantile Mortality, estimated from tlie ratio between tbe number of Ifeatbs of Infants under one year and tbe registered Births, was at the rate of 134 per thousand. This rate is not (juito so satisfactory as that obtaining in 1895, viz., 128 per thousand, but it is below the average rate of Infantile Mortality for the last ten years throughout the country, viz., 148 per thousand. In the next Table (Table F) I arrange the Deaths of 1898 under the respective Causes to which they were due, and compare them with a similar classification of Deaths occurring in 1895, and show the Increase or Decrease of Mortality in each disease. TABLE F. Cause of Death. Deaths in 1896 Deaths in 1895 Increase. Decrease. Scarlet Fever 1 2 1 Diphtheria . . 1 1 Membranous Croup 5 4 1 Typhoid Fever 5 4 1 Intermittent Fever . . 1 1 Puerperal Fever 4 o 2 Erysipelas 2 1 1 Measles 2 , , 2 AVhooping Cough . . 2 2 • • Influenza o 11 • • 8 Diarrhoea and Dysentery . . o 1 Pheumatic Fever o o 1 2 Phthisis 12 20 • • 8 Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy 47 50 • « o O Heart Disease 33 24 9 Injuries 12 8 4 , , All other Diseases . . 117 171 » • 54 Totals 253 302 25 74 The decreased Mortality in 1896 was chiefly due to a very marked decline in Deaths caused by Influenza, Phthisis, and diseases not otherwise specified, whilst Zymotic Diseases and Diseases of Heart showed an increase. The Death rate from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in 1896 was POT per thousand. TTiis is not so good a rate as the one I reported to you for 1895, viz., 0-68 per thousand. It is, however, markedly below the Zymotic Death rate of England and Wales in 1896, viz., 2*18 per thousand. Though the Zymotic Death rate has been somewhat higher in 1896 than in 1895, the number (fi Infectious Cases reported to ]iie has been smaller than in the previous year, as you Avill see from the following Table.