[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans Urban Sanitary District & Rural Sanitary District.

  • St. Albans (England). Urban Sanitary District.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, St Albans Urban Sanitary District & Rural Sanitary District. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE Medical Officer of Health FOR THE St. Albans Rural Sanitary Authority. Gentlemen, During the year 1893 there were 194 deaths recorded in the St. Albans Rural Sanitary District—98 of males and 96 of females. There were 29 deaths in St. Peter’s parish ; 27 in St. Stephen’s; 5 in St Michael’s; 13 in Sandridge; 59 in Harpenden; 33 in Wheathampstead; and 28 in Redbourn. Last year the total number of deaths in the district was 218. The number of deaths in St. Peter's, St. Stephen’s, Harpenden, and Wheathampstead was slightly over the average of the last three years, while in St. Michael’s, Sandridge, and Redbourn the number was under the average. Taking the district as a whole, the number of deaths was somewhat under the average of recent years, and considerably lower than in the years 1891 and 1892. Taking the population of the district as estimated up to the middle of 1893 to be 14,350, we should have a death- rate of 13*6. But in order to get the true death-rate, we must add to the 194, 15 deaths which occurred in the Union Workhouse, 3 deaths which occurred in the St. Albans Hospital, 1 death in the temporary Smallpox Hospital, and 1 death in the Sisters’ Hospital for Infectious Diseases, of persons belonging to the Rural District, and deduct 1 death of a person who was not resident in the St. Albans district.
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