[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1900
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    Shewing Births, Deaths, from all and certain causes. Home Patients of the Dispensary, admissions to the Fever Hospitals, and some of the Meteorological conditions and the Death-rates from certain causes in Leeds; with the Birth and Death-rates from all causes in the 33 large English towns fur each of the thirteen weeks ended 30th June, 1900. APR 1L. MAY. JUNE. 1900. .£ r>. hi CL < JZ hi CL < </) C* hi < 00 M to >» a s I May 12th. 1 ji Os rt vO N rt June 2nd. JZ Os D G 3 >“> 0 <u c rh N V c 3 O fO ID C 3 c x (A - < < X 1- O > H < Total Births . 1 247 240 223 299 249 257 3°5 221 296 209 260 259 231 3.296 Total Deaths . 2 197 201 162 192 186 150 165 173 159 150 I6S 145 106 2,154 Under 1 year . 3 50 50 40 51 52 3S 44 39 34 40 37 34 18 527 I to 2 years. 4 14 24 22 '9 15 11 10 14 l6 15 22 14 IO 206 2 to 5 years. 5 19 l6 I I 14 19 14 14 12 7 15 6 13 5 165 5 to 60 years . 6 69 65 48 62 66 5S 70 75 64 43 65 53 43 781 60 yrs. and upwards 7 45 46 41 46 34 29 27 33 38 37 38 3i 30 475 Deaths: Small-pox.. 8 ... Measles . 9 5 8 4 9 9 8 13 IO 6 6 9 3 6 96 Scarlet Fever. 10 3 I I 2 2 I 2 I 5 I 19 •Diphtheria. 11 6 4 4 5 5 2 8 4 3 7 4 4 2 58 Whooping-cough.. 12 6 3 5 7 3 2 6 3 4 4 I 1 I 46 ( Typhus Fever. 13 1 •! Enteric Fever. 14 1 3 2 2 4 3 3 1 ... 19 ( Other or doubtful 15 ... ... Diarrhoea or Dysent. 16 1 2 2 3 2 I I I 2 1 I 17 All seven. 17 18 19 l6 27 21 17 31 23 19 18 20 15 11 255 Cholera (English) ... 18 ... Croup . 19 63 2 2 Dis. o( Resp. System 20 59 33 45 5° 34 28 27 42 39 39 33 21 513 Influenzal . 21 7 5 3 I 2 I 19 Phthisis . 22 10 20 15 6 21 13 l6 l6 IO 8 15 1? II 173 Dis. of Circul. System 23 15 11 12 '5 10 15 9 12 14 I I 11 13 9 157 Violent Deaths . 24 8 3 4 5 4 5 9 8 2 5 s 5 2 68 Inquest cases . 25 22 17 13 t6 19 14 14 17 9 IO 18 10 4 183 Deaths in Pub. Inst. 26 20 27 25 26 22 18 19 21 24 17 25 13 16 27 3 Dispensary; visits pd. 27 216 219 169 27s 21 I 195 210 160 183 163 151 154 210 2,519 Cases admitted to our own hospitals. 28 12 21 14 17 21 25 21 22 21 16 21 27 19 257 Barom. (inches) . 29 29-54 29-44 3005 29-93 295s 29-68 29^6 29-63 30-14 2978 29-81 2971 29-72 29-77 Attached Ther. °F... 30 45 -Ss 48 92 52-46 52-08 5277 53-00150-54 54-54 56-54 58-38 63-85 62-31 60-23 5476 Dry bulb. 31 45-08 50*00 57-46 50jS 55-23 50-15151-92 57-00 57-08 60-85 66-46 63-23 61-38 55 90 Wet bulb. 32 41-46 4675 53-46 47-54 51-69 47-23 46-31 53-40 51-54 54-54 60-46 57-31 5578 51-35 Humidity . 33 75’54 79-08 76-31 77-08 78-00 80-6966-85 78-92 68-69 66-31 70-23 08-23 68-15 73'36 Mn.ofhighest reading 34 51' ‘ 7 53-00 63-57 65-00 60-57 59-29;58-57 01 -71 60-86 67-29 75-00 6771 64-43 62-29 ,, lowest ,, 35 35'«3 42-57 43-71 39-86 46-29 43-43'40-57 147-71 45-86 5: *oo 56-14 55-00 53-71 46-40 ,, daily range ... 36 '5'34 10-43 19-86 25-14 14-28 15-80 tS'oo 14*00 15*00 16-29 18-86 12*71 10*72 15-89 Total rainfall (inches) 37 0*22 0-49 0-17 0*12 0*19 o-73 0*01 0-30 0-03 1-42 o‘37 0-83 4-88 Wind |Direclion - 38 NNE w NYV N\V sww w NE sw NE NE SW SW SW N\Y SW |horce 0-6 ... 39 I 2 I 1 I I I 1 I I I I I l Amountof Cloudo-io 40 Birth-rate (Leeds) ... 41 29-9 29*0 27 O 36-2; 30-1 3i-i 36-9 26-7 35-8 25-3 31-5 31 ‘3 27-9 30-7 Death-rate (Leeds) .. 42 23 8 24-3 19-6 23-2 22-5 18*2 20*0 20*9 19*2 l8*I 20-3 17-5 12*8 20*0 Death-rale(33 towns) 43 23 0 22*4 21-3 20-3 19-6 17-8 18*2 1S4 17-7 16S iS-o 14-9 151 187 Birth-rave (33 towns) 44 30-6 27*0 293 32-0 3i-o 30-4 30-6 28-O 3i 1 24-6 3i-5 29-5 29-6 296 D. R. lung dis. (Leeds) 45 7'i 7'6 40 5'4 6*o 4-1 3-4 3’3 5'i 47 47 4-1 2-5 4-8 D. R. 7 zymotics ,, 46 2*2 23 1-9 33 2-5 2*1 3-8 2*8 2'3 2*2 2‘4 i-8 i‘3 2'4 The Dispensary returns are furnished me by the kindness of the resident staff, and have regard to a week ended in each case a day earlier than that given in the heading. 1 he meteorological data are compiled from returns sent us by Mr. Crowther. They are uncorrected readings, made at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. The humidity each week is the average of the humidities calculated on eacn of the thirteen obser¬ vations of the wet and dry bulbs. The corrected humidity in Mr. (finisher's report for the nuarter is, for the calendar month of April. 83 ; May, 82 ; June, 74. Average, 81. * Including membranous croup. Line 19 includes non-spasmodic croup not returned as membranous.