[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Guernsey.
- Guernsey (Channel Islands). Council.
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Guernsey. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Table I. (Incorp. Soc. of M. O. H., 1900), for Whole District. Population estimated to middle of each year. BIRTHS. DEATHS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE. DEATHS AT ALL AGES. YEAR. Number. Rate per 1,000. Number. Rate per 1,000 registered. Number. Rate per 1,000. Column ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1895 36,741 1,126 30-62 175 155-4 712 19-38 1896 37,245 1,228 32-97 129 105-0 547 14-68 1897 37,801 1,157 30-60 193 166-8 708 18-73 1898 38,415 1,161 30-22 194 167-0 705 18-35 1899 39,072 1,121 28-69 151 134-7 666 17-04 1900 39,703 1,011 25-46 145 143-4 624 15-72 1901 40,300 1,096 27-20 190 171-3 699 17-34 1902 40,550 1,128 27-80 161 142-7 657 16-20 1903 41,050 1,120 27-28 112 100-0 597 14-54 1904 41,710 1,144 27-42 181 158-2 690 ] 6-54 Averages for ten years. 1895-1904. 39,258 1,144 28-82 163 144-4 660 16-85 1905 42,220 1,129 27-1 155 135-0 644 15-2 BIRTHS. The number of births registered during the year was 1,148, 559 being females and 589 males; a birth rate of 27T, which is very slightly lower than that of last year, but much the same as that recorded during the previous four 3rears. There were 47 illegitimate births, a percentage to the total of 4T. This is not a high rate, live being the average. I should judge that the alien birth rate here must be a low one, as many of the adult foreign population are members of religious orders, but even if it be low it is chicliy amongst the undesirable classes. In London, where in some of the poorest districts the population is almost entirely composed of foreign Jews, Russians and Germans, the birth rate for 1904 in one of these districts, St. George’s-in-the-East, reached the high rate of 60'8 per 1,000, the highest birth rate ever recorded in England. As the birth rate varies so much with different races (the Jews having a particularly high one) it is a matter for congratulation that the French birth rate, the one with which we are chiefly concerned, is an exceptionally low one.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29269428_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
