[Report 1881] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County.

  • Newcastle upon Tyne (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1881
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Credit: [Report 1881] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In explanation of this Table it is to be observed that the populations of the sub-Districts of Westgate, St. Andrew’s, St. Mcholas’, and All Saints’, as enumerated at the census, were much J)elow, and in the case of Bjker much above the estimates; the rates, therefore, for that year, in the first four of these districts are understated, and in Byker overstated. The mean annual birth-rate of the Borough per 1,000 population during the last five preceding years is 38-5. The condition of the different Sub-districts in regard of mortality from the Miasmatic order of Zymotic diseases during last, as compared with the preceding year, is as follows: — Sub-Distkicts. Number of Deaths from Miasmatic Diseases. 1880. 1881. Westgate 223 206 St. Andrew’s ... 78 30 St. Nicholas’ ... 52 67 All Saints’ 109 83 Byker. XJ 100 61 Borough 562 447 The mortality from the Chief Zymotic Diseases, viz.:—Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Coug-h, Fever” (including Typhus, Enteric, and Simple Continued Fevers), and Diarrhoea, in the Registration Sub-districts* during the successive seasons of the year is as follows:— Numbek op Deaths in 1881. Westgate. t St. Anueew’S' St. Nicholas’. All Saints’- Byker. 1st Qr. 2nd. Qr. 3rd Qr. 4th Qr. Total. -o m T-i 1 2nd Qr. j 3rd Qr. 4th Qr. Total. 1st Qr. 2nd Qr. 3rd Qr. 4th Qr. Total, i 1st Qr. 2nd Qr. 3rd Qr. 4th Qr. Total. 1st Qr. ; 2nd Qr. 3rd Qr. 4th Qr. Total. Small Pox 1 1 2 4 1 2 3 1 1 2 2 Measles 9 10 2 9 16 1 1 9 1 9 1 4 3 2 4 9 1 1 9 4 Scarlet Fever ... 5 6 1 3 15 2 2 4 8 ] 4 6 5 3 2 8 18 2 2 1 1 6 Diphtheria 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 WhoopingCough 12 10 3 5 30 2 2 3 . . . 7 5 1 3 . . 9 3 3 8 3 17 1 1 3 2 7 Typhus... 1 8 9 1 3 1 5 4 9 6 Enteric (or Ty- phoid) Fever 7 7 6 3 23 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 o 2 1 1 5 9 Simple Contd. Fever . • • 2 1 . . 3 . . . . . • . . • . « • • • « • ... 1 1 2 1 1 Diarrhoea 22 13 44 7 86 1 2 4 1 8 ... 1 9 1 11 16 4 20 4 6 12 3 24 * Corrected by distribution of those occurring in the Fever Hospital to the district from which each patient came, f Exclusive of Benwell and Fenham.