[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Bacup Borough.

  • Bacup (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Bacup Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Medical Officer’s Annual Report FOR 1904. To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Borough of Bacup. Gentlemen, I have the hoiioui' ot presenting you with ray Annual Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Borough of Bacup for the year 1904. The area of the Borough is (3,400 acres. The area covereil by watei* (if we e.xclude the course of the river Irwell) is so suiall that it may be ignored. The area of the two reservoirs is 9 acres. The area of the reservoirs anil lodges of the various mills cannot be much. The ])upulation at the census for 190! was 22,605 ; inhabited houses, 5,284 ; the avei'age number of persons per house l)eing 4'2. In 1891 the average per house w’as 4 4 ]>ersous. I have estimated the populatiou in the middle of 1904 to have been 22,500. BIRTHS. During 1904 there were 509—males 249, females 260—which is at the rate of 22'19 per 100. There were 28 illegitimate births—males 13, females 15. The birth- i-atc for Kngland and Wales for 1901 was 27'9 per 1000. The Hidimirrl increase in the Borough due to excess of irths over deaths was 128 tor the year. Deaths. There were 381 deaths registered—males 179, females 202, which is at the rate of 16'61 i)er 1000. The death-rate for England and Wales for 1904 was 16'2 per 1000.