Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1904 / by J. H. Crocker.

  • Richmond upon Thames (London, England). Council
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[1904]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1904 / by J. H. Crocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Births and Deaths during 1904 in ti]e various Wards, Wards. Total Births. Birth Rate per 1000 living Total Deaths. Death Rate per 1000 living. North 243 24*8 107 10*9 South 64 10 4 89 -t— CO GO East 208 21*3 117 12 0 West 66 13*8 49 10*2 Kew 40 13*8 38 13*1 Total for Borough 621 18 6 400 / 12*0 f After deducting 38 in the Union Workhouse. Gfyief Epidemic The number of deaths due to the “ seven princi- Diseases, Death pal Zymotic Diseases ”* usually classified under Rate. this heading was 51. This gives a zymotic death- rate of T5 per 1,000 persons living, as compared with *85 for 1903. The increased rate is due to the greater number of deaths from Measles, Whooping Cough and Diarrhoea. The zymotic death rate of England and Wales for 1904 was T94, that for the 76 great towns 2*49, and Rural England and Wales 1*28 Scarlet Fecer.—1 death. Measles.—13 deaths, all but one below five years of age. Diphtheria and Group.—3 deaths, two below five years of age. Whooping Gough.—11 deaths, ten below five years of age, the other being registered as five years of age. Diarrhoea.—23 deaths, 19 of these being below one year of age, VwO 4 • « D«0 * Small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, fever,, (typhus, enteric, and continued) and diarrhoea.