[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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    Year. Registered Population. No of Deaths. Death-rate. 1895 25,200 600 23-81 1896 25,700 582 22-64 1897 26,000 545 20-96 1898 26,300 486 18-48 1899 26,500 577 21-77 1900 26,750 577 21-57 1901 27,000 485 18-05 1902 27,500 462 16-80 1903 28,000 464 16-57 1904 28,500 455 15-96 Average for 1895 to 1904... 26,745 523 19-66 1905... 29,000 486 16-76 The number of Deaths given above and the Death-rate calculated from that number include all Deaths occurring and registered in the Borough during the year. I find however that twenty-seven (27) Deaths were of persons not belonging to Chorley, but who had been removed either to the Workhouse or the Bawcliffe Hospital and had died in one of these institutions. Excluding these Deaths and including the Deaths of two (2) Residents who died in Hospitals outside Chorley there were only four-hundred and sixty-one (461) Deaths of Chorley residents— giving a net Death-rate of 15‘86 per thousand per annum. In 1904 1 estimated a net Death-rate of residents of 16'07 per thousand; but in that were included all Deaths in the Workhouse. I cannot report as I was able to do in 1904 that the Death-rate of Chorley in 1905 was lower than the average rate obtaining through- out England and Wales and the average rate of the seventy six large towns, and almost the same as the rate of the one hundred and forty one smaller towns amongst which Chorley is enumerated. Our Death-rate is 1 ’5 above the averate rate of England and Wales—1 above that of the large towns and 2'3 above that of the smaller towns. This is shown in table C. [5]