[Report 1870] / Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool City.

  • Liverpool (England). City Council.
Date:
1870
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Credit: [Report 1870] / Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The results of the alterations occasioned by a re-arrangement of the deaths in the wards and districts from whence the patients were removed will be shown in the following table, from which a calculated rate of mortality per 1,000 of the estimated inhabitants has been made. Districts and Wards. Annual. Deaths. Rate per 1000. Scotland........ 2941 29-1 Yauxhall............. 959 43-9 St. Paul’s and]Exchange .. 925 36-2 St. Anne’s and Lime Street....... 1503 36’3 Castle Street and St. Peter’s ...... 251 181 Pitt Street and Great George .... 850 346 Rodney Street and Abercromby ..... 1120 21-9 Everton and Kirkdale ..... 3078 264 WTpcI TIptTw .. ............ 1249 24-4 Thp TrvsO-pths.......... 2348 33'0 Parish and Out-Township Workhouses and Hospitals, resi- } 875 dences unknown............. f Parish ....... 9300 33 3 Out-Townships... 6799 28-5 Borough............. 16099 31T The above rates must be regarded as mere approximations ; this is especially the case in respect of the mortality rates of Yauxhall Ward, St. Paul’s and Exchange Wards, Castle Street and St. Peter’s Wards, Pitt Street and Great George Wards, where the calculation is made upon a supposed annual decrease of population ; and in Lime Street and St. Anne’s Wards, where the increase of population is estimated on a very small decimal of 00.6 per cent. The Registrar-General's weekly reports enable us to compare the mortality of Liverpool with thirteen of the large towns of Great Britain ; and as the density of population ought to be considered in every comparison of the sanitary condition of towns and cities, it has also been included in the following table :—