[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridge Borough.

Cambridge (England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1895

Credit: [Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridge Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$The examination of the well water of the District has been continued, and in all instances of organic pollution the wells have been closed. Vital Statistics. The calculation of population on which the vital statistics of the year are based is rendered difficult and uncertain, not only by the considerations mentioned in my Report for the year 1 893, but also by the immigration into the town of a large body of artisans engaged on the Sewerage Works and the building of the New Theatre. 1 have ascertained ou enquiry that four hundred would be a fair number to accept as a temporary addition to the population, the estimate of which is calculated on the Registrar-General’s method. The total number of births registered is 972, equal to a birth-rate of 24*7 per living 1,000 per annum. The birth-rate in England and Wales for the same period is given at 30*3 in the Report of the Registrar-GeneraI. The total number of deaths registered is 628, equal to a death-rate of 15*9 per 1,000 living per annum. After making the usual corrections, as indicated at the bottom of the Table IV., the total number of deaths properly belonging to the district is found to be 583, or 16 more than the corresponding number in 1894, and the death- rate 14*8. The death-rate for England and Wales for the same period is given at 18’7. The deaths due to the chief Zymotic Diseases include 8 from Diphtheria, 2 from Whooping Cough, 4 from Eiiteric Fevei\ 28 from Diarrhoea (27 under 5 years of age)—total, 42, equal to a death-rate for these diseases of 1’07 per 1,000 of the population per annum (’60 lower than in 1894). Estimate of population. Birth-rate. Death-rate. Zymotic disease.$

[Report 1895] / Medical Officer of Health, Cambridge Borough.

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