[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Newton Abbot R.D.C., Newton Abbot U.D.C., Dawlish U.D.C.

  • Newton Abbot (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1894
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Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Newton Abbot R.D.C., Newton Abbot U.D.C., Dawlish U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■ > ns gjjw helqotoo ■ Jud ,.’ioj'£w loot //on Jsei siont? .The number of deaths registered in this urban district during 1894! was 68j of which 31 were in males and 37 in females, equal to a yearly rate of 1575 per 1,000; excluding 7 visitors this sinks to 14*1, These are the lowest figures since the year 1879 : if, however, the violent deaths be omitted, whicjiralone give a rate of nearly i‘o per 1,000, the year under review has a] lower mortality. The return is even better than it seems, as there was no death in the Workhouse referable to Dawlish. Id the four quarters of the year, the deaths were successively 22; 22, 13, and 11 in number. ^ j I ; Under the age of one year, there were 13 deaths ; between I and 5 years, 1 ; between 5 and 15 years, 3 ; between 15 and 25 years, 7 ; between 25 and 65 years, 13 ; and over the latter age, the first and the last figures are both high. .The pther chief causes of fatality, besides those given in the table, were Constitutional diseases, other than tubercle, 5 deaths, all but,one being from cancer ; diseases of the nervous system, 9 deaths, of which 6 were due to apoplexy ; diseases of the heart and blood vessels, 11 ; of the respiratory organs, 13 ; of the digestive, 3 ; of the urinary organs and those of special sense, 1 each. Four were assigned to ill-defined causes, a like number to accident, and three to old age. The births of 4i male and 39 female children give the low'annual rate of 18*5 per 1,000. This is the lowest yet recorded, but this may be partially explained by its being a fluctuation from 1893, the highest for many years. The natural increase of population was only 12, indeed but for the small number of deaths it might have been a minus quantity. ZYMOTIC DISEASE. —On the subject of Zymotic diseases there is little to be said, two deaths from whooping cough in infants during the month of January being the sole fatality from this group; these, however, give a death-rate of nearly 7 per . 1,000. A death from influenza was certified in June, A few cases of scarlatina have been notified, one in at young.adult in Hatcher street in January, four in a visitor’s family iri July, and three id a resident’s family in December. One Base of typhoid fever came under notice ; this young man slept in.a sort of outbuilding, and in the wall of the room he