Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the town of Exmouth / by Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector.

Rammell, Thomas Webster

Date:: 1850

Credit: Report to the General Board of Health on a preliminary inquiry into the sewerage, drainage, and supply of water, and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the town of Exmouth / by Thomas Webster Rammell, Superintending Inspector. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$to the middle year (1845), or at (5119 + 140 = ) 5259; the average annual proportion of deaths to 1000 persons living dur- ing the above period will be 194-; and the average annual pro- portionate numbers of births and deaths to the whole popula- tion during the same period will be as follows:— Birttu. Deaths. Deaths under S Years, Deaths rrom Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases, Exmouth — including the two) parishes of Littleham and > Withy com be Rawleigh . . j 1 in 34 I in 52 1 in 131 1 in 229 On reference to the table published by the Health of To\vns Association, showing the rates of mortality in eleven of the re- gistration districts in the county of Devon during the year 1841, which there is no ground for regarding as more than an average year, it appears that in only three of these districts, viz. Exeter, Plymouth and Stoke Damerel, and East Stone- house, does the rate of mortality exceed, while in the majority of the remaining eight districts it is considerably beneath, the proportion given in the above table. It further appears that in only one of these districts, viz. Exeter, does the proportion of deaths from epidemics exceed the proportion above given as occurring in Exmouth. In order that a comparison may be instituted between the rates of mortality in Exmouth and in the more healthy dis- tricts, I have in the following table placed the numbers representing the proportions occurring in three of these, viz. Tavistock and Okehampton, Axminster and Honiton, Bideford and Holsworthy, in juxtaposition with those of Exmouth. Births. Deaths. Deaths under 6 Years. Deaths from Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases, Exmouth — including the two] parishes of Littleham and> Withy combe Rawleigh . ,J Tavistock and Okehampton . . Axminster and Honiton ... Bideford and Holsworthy . . 1 in 34 1 in 33 1 in 36 1 in 35 1 in 52 1 in 67 1 in 66 1 in 65 1 in 131 1 in 202 1 in 244 1 in 249 1 in 229 1 in 523 1 in 556 1 in 456 It appears from a return furnished by the Registrar-General that the mortality in Exmouth during the seven years 1838-44 was slightly greater than the proportion above given, being 20 annually to 1000 persons living. I now proceed to describe the state of the tomi as regards—$