[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield Borough.

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

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    The true birth rate is therefore 3^1 per 1,000 population, as compared with 29*7 for the whole of England and Wales, and the illegitimate rate, 6-4 per 100 births, as compared with 4-3 per cent, for the whole of England and Wales during 1895. Deaths. — 505 deaths were registered during the year. This is equal to a crude death rate of 21-73 Per 1,000. There were how- ever, 28 deaths at the Workhouse, 14 deaths at the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital, and 2 deaths by violence, of non- residents. Excluding these, but adding 4 deaths of Chesterfield residents at the County Asylum, we have a nett total deaths of 465, which is equivalent to a death rate of 20 per 1,000. We have further to note the fa (ft that the population of Chesterfield contains an undue proportion of young adults as com- pared with the Country generally. Making due allowance for this, we get a corrected death rate of 20*6 per 1,000, as compared with 17T for England and Wales. The Infantile death rate (deaths under 1 year of age) was equivalent to 167 per 1,000 births Inquests were held in 26 cases or 5-1 per cent of all deaths. The number of deaths uncertified by medical men or coroner amounted to another 26. This is an unsatisfactory number. The unwelcome rise in the death rate is, no doubt, partly due to the population being under-estimated. The Measles epidemic also was responsible for a mortality of 1*5 per 1000, as compared with *5 last year. Respiratory diseases were accountable for no less than 100 deaths, 38 being due to Pneumonia. It is to be regretted that with so much disease requiring hospital treatment there is no institution, except the Workhouse, which receives medical cases. I have omitted the usual table showing the mortality in the three wards. The estimated population of the wards appears to me to be so inaccurate that any deductions made from local death rates would be fallacious. Table II gives the registered cause of deaths for the whole Borough.