[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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    of 1908. The Infantile Mortality throughout England and Wales in 1908 was one hundred and twenty-one (121) per thousand, and of the smaller towns one hundred and twenty-four (124) per thousand. The average Infantile Mortality for the last decade in England and Wales was one hundred and forty-two (142) per thousand. In 1908 it was twenty-one (21) below the average of the previous ten years, whilst in Chorley, the Infantile Mortality was last year thirty-three (33) per thousand below the average of the previous decade. In Table V. in the appendix I have arranged the Deaths of Infants under the various Diseases to which they were due and according to the number of weeks or months that the Infants lived. Thirty (30) Infants died under one month of age, and eighty-five (85) between one and twelve months old. Eleven (11) died from Infectious Diseases, viz.: from Whooping Cough nine (91, and from Chicken-pox and Measles respectively one (1) ; twenty (20) died from Diarrhoeal diseases, forty seven (47) from Wasting diseases, including eleven (11) Premature Births, two (2) from Tubercular Diseases, and thirty-five (35) from other causes. The Deaths of thirteen (13) Illegitimate Infants were registered during the year, giving the Infantile Mortality of Illegitimate Infants at four hundred and nineteen (419) per thousand, whilst the Infantile Mortality of Legitimate Infants is only one hundred and twenty-eight (128) per thousand Births. In the next Table (Table E) the Deaths of residents in 1908 allotted in the various Wards and to the Workhouse are given under the principal Causes of Death. I also compare them with the total number of Deaths (of residents since 1902 and registered Deaths previous to that year) occurring in each of the years of the decade 1898—1907, and with the average number of Deaths at that period due to the several causes. [7]