[Report 1916] / Medical Officer of Health, Southampton County Borough.

  • Southampton (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1916
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Credit: [Report 1916] / Medical Officer of Health, Southampton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BIRTH RATE, DEATH RATE, AND INFANTILE MORTALITY IN SOUTHAMPTON SINCE 1882. Year. Birth Rate. Death Rate. 1 1 j Infantile I Mortality. Average Five Years. ! 1 Birth 1 Rate. Death Rate. Infantile Mortality. 1882 32.1 18.3 1 131 1883 34-6 20.9 137 1884 31-7 16.9 1 114 ' 31.8 18.6 134 1885 30.5 19.0 146 1886 30.1 18.0 140, 1887 31-3 18.7 145 1888 31-3 16.9 126 • 1889 30.6 16.3 117 [ 30.6 17.5 128 1890 28.5 17.5 129 , 1891 31.3 18.0 123; 1892 28.6 21.5 I48n 1893 29-5 19.5 157 1894 30.2 16.0 119 29.8 18.6 145 i895 30.4 18.7 155 1 1896 30.4 ’*7.2 146^ 1897 30.4 /.3 156] 1898 29.8 :7-3 153 1899 29.6 19.1 178 29.6 17.6 159 1900 28.3 17.6 152 1901 30.0 16.6 154 f 1902 29.1 15.7 I24\ 1903 29.4 14.1 II4 1904 27.5 14.2 II4 !- 27.6 14.6 120 1905 26.0 15.1 133 1906 26.0 13.8 113/ 1907 24-3 13-6 io8\ 1908 25.4 13-6 113 1909 25.3 13.9 106 24.8 13.7 108 1910 24.9 12.4 79 1911 23.9 15-2 135^ 1912 23.3 13.2 84) 1913 23.8 12.9 82 1914 23-9 13-9 23.0 13-9 86 1915 21.9 14.8 88 1 1916 22.0 14-5 85) MORTALITY FROM ZYMOTIC DISEASES. The death-rate from diseases usually classified as the chief epidemic diseases, namely: Small Pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, Measles, Whooping Cough, and Diarrhoea, arid Enteritis, among children under two years of age, amounted to 0.84 per 1,000 of the population, which is lower than in the preceding year, when the rate was i.33-