[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Y ear. Registered Population. No. of Births. Birth-rate. 1895 25,200 25,700 882 35*00 1896 829 32*26 1897 26,000 779 29*96 1898 26,300 799 30*38 1899 26,500 788 29-77 1900 26,750 719 26*88 1901 27,000 759 28*11 1902 27,500 790 28-72 1903 28,000 825 29*46 1904 28,500 782 27-44 Average of 1895 to 1904... 26,745 795*2 29*79 1905... 29,000 775 26-73 Twenty-eight (28) of the Births registered in 1905 were illegitimate. The number of Deaths registered in the Borough during the year was Four hundred and eighty-six (486) of which Two hundred and fifty- five (255) were Males and Two hundred add thirty-one (231) were Females. Tht Death-rate calculated from these registered Deaths upon the same estimated population is accordingly 16*76 per thousand. In 1904 Four hundred and fifty-five (455) Deaths were registered, giving a rate of 15*96 per thousand, that is—*8 per thousand less than is estimated for 1905. The Death-rate throughout England and Wales in 1905 was only 15*2 per thousand, the lowest on record. One (1) per thousand less than the rate of the preceding year 1904, and Two (2) per thousand less than the average for the ten years 1895—1904. You will see in Table B, however, that though the rate of Registered Deaths in 1905 was ’8 per thousand higher than that of 1904 it was 2*9 less than the average rate of the preceding ten years (1895—1904), and that only in 1903 and 1904 has the Death-rate been lower than in the past year. [4]