[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    15‘34 per thousand. This rate is decidedly below the rate of 1907, viz. : 16*46 per thousand ; and still more markedly below the average for the decade preceding 1908, viz. : 17’88 per thousand. Indeed the Death-rate is the lowest that I have been able to report to you. It does not, however, compare so favourably with the Death-rate of England and Wales in 1908, viz. : 14‘7 per thousand, nor with the average rate of the smaller towns, viz. : 14*0 per thousand. The Death-rate throughout England and Wales was in 1908 the lowest on record, being 0*3 per thousand less than that of the previous year. The Chorley Death-rate, also the lowest on record, was 1*12 per thousand below that of 1907. The number of Deaths in each Quarter,except the third, of 1908, were lower than the number in the corresponding Quarter of 1906, and the average number for that Quarter during the last ten years. In the Third Quarter of 1908, however, there were decidedly more Deaths than in the Third Quarter of 1907, and a slight increase over the average for that Quarter in the previous decade. You will see from Table A that the Second and Fourth Quarters of 1908 show the most marked decrease in the number of Deaths. TABLE A, YEAR. First Quarter. Second Quarter. Third Quarter. Fourth Quarter. TOTAL. 1908 140 112 105 Ill 468 1907 149 129 91 125 494 Average of ten years 1898—1907 142*2 123*6 102*6 128*4 496*8 U]