[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough.

  • Eastbourne (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This is a high rate of infantile mortality for Eastbourne, far above the average. There was a general increase in nearly all the causes, diarrhoea especially. Year, Deaths under 1 year. Mortality per 1000 births. 1898 130 139 1897 98 110 1896 105 II5 1895 122 133 1894 95 97 1893 130 144 Average of ten years up to 1893 106 6 125 The infantile mortality for England and Wales for 1898 was 161 to every 1,000 registered births, or 12 above the average for 1888-1897. The subjoined tables shew the principal causes of the deaths of infants in recent years. Deaths. 1 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 From Zymotic Diseases ... 9 38 26 26 45 ! Constitutional Diseases... 14 1.3 9 8 11 i Developmental Diseases.. 22 26 23 21 22 Local Diseases 38 34 24 28 41 Deaths from violence ... — 2 7 4 ■ 2 Deaths from ill-deffned & not specified causes ... 12 9 16 11 9 1
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