[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1896
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Credit: [Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Municipal Buildi nus, LEEDS, nth February, iSqj. To the Chairman of the Sanitary Committee. Sir, The health of Leeds in 1896, so far as this is indicated by the death-rate, has been unusually good. With the single exception of the year 1894 (when the rate fell to the unprecedentedly low figure of 179) the death-rate of iS‘8 last year is one death per 1,000 below that of any year hitherto recorded. The average mortality in Leeds during the ten years, 1S65-74, was 2S'4- During the decade, 1875-84, it was 237, and during the ten years, 1885-94, 2ri. In 1895 it was 207 ; in 1896, i8‘8. Taking the last three consecutive years, 1894-5-6, the death-rate for this triennium is 19'!, and is below that of any consecutive period of three years on record. The rate for this triennium is also lower by one per 1,000 than that of any three selected years preceding it. The three years with lowest death-rates, previous to 1894, were 1892 (19'S), 1885 (19'9), and 1888 (20'6), the average of the three being 20-i. But these three years of low mortality were severally sandwiched between years when the rates were high. The year 1892 (with a death-rate of I9'8) was pre¬ ceded and followed by years with mortalities of 22^9 and 22'4 respectively. The year 1888 (with the rate of 20-6) had rates of 2n immediately before, and 220 immediately after it, while the mortadty of 19-9, in 1885, came between one of 24’2 in 1884, and 21 uj in 1886.