[Report 1880] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County.

  • Newcastle upon Tyne (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1880
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Credit: [Report 1880] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As in previous years, the relative values of the foregoing rates for the Registration Sub-district* of Byker during 1880 may be regarded as being impaired by an under-estimate of population, only to be corrected by the Census. The mean annual birth-rate of the Borough per 1,000 population during the last five preceding years is 39’3, and the death-rate 23*4. The condition of the different Sub-districts in regard of mortality from the Miasmatic order of the Zymotic class of diseases during last, as compared with the preceding, year is as follows Sub-districts. Number of Deaths from Miasmatic Diseases. 1879. 1880. Westgate 299 228 St. Andrew’s ... 42 78 St. Nicholas’. 55 52 All Saints’ 107 109 Byker. 121 100 Borough 624 562 The mortality from the Chief Zymotic Diseases, vis.:—Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, “ Fever” (includ¬ ing Typhus, Enteric, and Simple Continued Fevers), in the Registration Sub-districts* during the successive seasons of the year is as follow^:— Number of Deaths in 1880. Westgate. f St. Andrew’s- St. Nicholas’. All Saints’. Byker. 1st Qr. 2nd Qr. 3rd Qr. 4th Qr. Total. ' 02 \—i 2nd Qr. 3rd Qr. U O* A 4—1 Total. <y ' 40 02 2nd Qr. 3rd Qr. 4th Q.r. Total. 1st Qr. a 'd .g 3rd Qr. 4th Qr. Total. 1st Qr. j 2nd Qr, Sh •d Sh co 4th Qr. Total. I Small Pox Measles... ] 2 3 9 2 2 2 3 3 2 8 Scarlet Fever ... 24 9 14 13 60 2 1 4 8 15 3 7 ] 3 14 8 8 4 7 27 7 10 6 2 25 Diphtheria 2 2 1 1 1 1 WhoopiugCough 24 9 8 8 49 9 11 2 • • « 22« 10 9 a- 1 ... 13 16 13 2 2 33 4 3 2 3 12 Tvphus... Enteric (or Ty- phoid) Fever 1 1 4 4 10 1 1 2 4 8 1 . , . 1 • a • 2 . • . 2 1 1 4 1 1 1 3 6 Simple Contd. Fever 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 Diarrhoea 5 5 51 6 67 2 ... 19 ... 21 • • • 1 7 2 10 • • * 1 28 4 33 2 ... 28 11 41 # Corrected by distribution of the deaths occurring in the Fever Hospital to the district from which each patient came. f Exclusive of Benwell and Fenham.