[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough.

  • Doncaster (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There were 501 deaths registered in the borough Death-rat3. .1 last year—males, 250; females, 251. Twenty of these ] occurred at the Workhouse or the Infirmary, these were either strangers or belonged to the rural districts ; the correct number of deaths was therefore 481, and : the death-rate for the year was 17'4 per 1000. ( During the first quarter of last year death-rate was t During the second quarter ,, , 1 During the third quarter ,, , 1 During the fourth quarter ,, , the 21-3 per 1000 14-9 17-1 20T y} ? y y y The average rate for the previous 10 years was 18*8. It is satisfactory to note that the death-rate was j'; last year 1*4 below the 10 years average, but throughout [) the whole of England and Wales the death-rate was [1 the lowest ever registered : it was 16*6 per 1000. If not d the actual lowest the death-rate in Doncaster was last year next to the lowest yet registered. Before any n calculation of the death-rate in the wards of the town is j: made, all the deaths, other than strangers, at the / Workhouse and the Infirmary are distributed according to d the population throughout the several wards. Central Ward the death-rate was 17*0 per East ,, 7 7 15*2 North ,, 7 7 17*0 South ,, 7 7 14*6 St. George’s ,, 7 7 18*4 West ,, 7 7 19*7 Fifty-two deaths were caused by zymotic diseases * Deaths n-om • zymotic rthese are almost all infectious, and 72 per cent, were 5 deaths of children under 5 years of age.