[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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    in Table E. In this Table for the last three or four years only the res- idents of these Wards are included and not people belonging to other districts who have died in the Borough, and in 1905 the Deaths of persons dying in the Workhouse, bat who have been brought there from the outside townships are also excluded. TABLE E. WARDS. 1896 No. of Deaths. 1890 No. of Deaths. 1897 No. of Deaths. 1898 No. of 1 Deaths. 1899 No. of 1 Deaths. 1900 No. of Deaths. 1901 N o. of 1 Deaths. 1902 No. of Deaths. 1903 No. of 1 Deaths. 1904 No of Deaths. 1 Avr’g. of 10 years, ; 1896-1904. 1895 No. of Deaths. North ... 127 89 9i 90 102 90 93 83 77 71 92 78 South ... 137 148 113 108 120 140 93 116 88 93 116 88 East 136 134 161 113 148 162 109 116 141 142 136 141 West 159 183 143 136 163 125 147 101 131 112 140 125 Work- house... 41 28 34 39 44 60 43 53 31 40 41 29 Totals ... 600 582 545 486 577 577 485 469 468 458 525 461 There is one satisfactory feature to be noted in this Report, viz. : —The decrease in the number of Deaths under one year of age. In 1905 one-hundred and eleven (111) Deaths of Infants were registered as compared with one-hundred and fifty-nine (159) the average of the ten years 1895-1904. The Infantile mortality, that is the ratio between the Deaths under one year and the number of Births was only one-hundred and forty-three (143) per thousand. This is I believe the lowest In- fantile Mortality that I have had to report, and is a marked improve- ment upon that of 1904, viz. :—One-hundred and seventy (170) per thousand ; and upon the average Inhintile Mortality for the decade 1895- 1904, one-hundred and ninty (190) per thousand. It would be still more satisfactory if the Chorley Infantile Mortality was not above the average of the Country, viz. :—One-hundred and twenty-eight (128); of the seventy-six large towns, one-hundred and forty (140); and of the smaller towns, amongst which (.diorley is numbered, one-hundred and thirty-two (132) per thousand Births. [7]