[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham UDC 1894].

  • Twickenham (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1895]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham UDC 1894]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District Council of Twickenham. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, 1894. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit my Eleventh Annual Report as to the Health and Sanitary condition of the Parish of Twickenham. The Report will embrace the vital statistics of the year 1894, which terminated on December 31st, and a summary of the measures taken for preventing the development and dissemination of disease. Appended to this report will be found the usual tabular statements of the sickness and mortality within the district, both classified according to diseases, ages and localities. In _ ^reviewing the past year I,am happy to record a decrease amounting to 23^and in comparison with a decrease of 43 in the total number of deaths from all causes, and notwithstanding the increase of population the lowest number of deaths recorded since the year 1888. The death-rate for the present year is 12T per 1,000, and the mean for the past 10 years is 13*2 per 1,000. There has been an increase in the number of Deaths from Zymotic diseases, and notably from Diphtheria and Measles. These diseases will be treated of under their respective headings, as also the various Sanitary Measures which have been effected during the past year. I propose now to place before you the vital statistics for the year 1894. These are calculated upon an estimated population at the middle of the year of 17,000. The Population as estimated at the Census ot’ 1891 was 16,026. I may add that the number of inhabited houses was at that time 3,109, and at the present time 3,352. The total number of Deaths for 1894 was 207, which is at the average rate of 12T per 1,000. This number includes 11 at Whitton, 7 at St. John’s Hospital, 1 at the Boys’ Home, 1 at the Police Orphanage, 2 at Kneller Hall, and 1 at the Powder Mills. The number of Deaths in 1893 was 230, average rate 13'6 per 1,000. 11 11 1892 „ 250, 15-6 11 11 1891 „ 225, 14*3 11 11 1890 „ 211, n 13-7 > 7 The Deaths of persons of 65 years of age and upwards numbered