[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.
- Chorley (England). Borough Council
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Rawcliffe Hospital occurred in the case of persons not resident in the Borough, whilst two (2) Chorley residents died in the Isolation Hospital, and four (4) in other Hospitals or Asylums outside the Borough, during the year. To obtain the Death-rate of Chorley residents for 1908, I exclude those Deaths of non-residents registered in the Borough and occurring in the Workhouse and Rawcliffe Hospital, and include the Deaths of Chorley residents which have taken place in Hospitals outside the Borough, and which have been registered in other registration districts. I find that four hundred and fifty-seven (457) Deaths of Chorley residents occurred in 1908, and thus, accordingly, the Death-rate of the residents of Chorley has been 14*99 per thousand per annum, The Death-rate of Chorley Residents has only been obtained during the last four years, and from the next Table you will see that the rate in 1908 has been less than in any of the three preceding years. TABLE B. YEAR. Estimated Population. No. of Deaths. DEATH-RATE. ! 1908 30,500 457 14-99 1907 30,000 477 15-90 1906 29,500 461 15-63 1905 29,000 461 15-89 The decrease, in comparison with 1907, in the number of Deaths of residents has occurred in North and South Wards, whilst in East and West Wards there have been a few more Deaths in 1908 than in 1907. This you will see from the following Table, in which I have arranged the Deaths of 1908 and the three preceding years under the Wards and Workhouse (Chorley residents only). [5]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29110646_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
