[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Penzance U.D.C. / Borough.
- Penzance (England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Penzance U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[4] It will be seen that in the first quarter of the year there was a saving of four lives on the average. Analysis shows that the gain was distributed between the two extremes of life. Nevertheless, the deaths from ordinary respiratory diseases were 50 per cent, above the average, and there were five deaths from influenza. February and March were cold, wet, and squally months, and the average number of deaths from respiratory diseases nearly doubled during their continuance. In the second quarter of the year the deaths were six above the average. Here the stress fell upon infant life, and the respiratory deaths were almost treble the 1896-9 average during the months of April and May. In the third quarter we find a saving of 14 lives. The saving; is shown in nearly all classes of disease, and is distributed between all age-periods. In the fourth quarter the deaths are 12 below the average. Here the saving has been chiefly at the two extremes of life. As in the third quarter deaths from respiratory diseases were about one-third only of the average, there having been in this class only four deaths since May The fourth quarter, however, and especially December, was marked by an unusual number of deaths from heart disease. This I am inclined to associate with sudden changes of barometric pressure. The principal rates for the quarters are as follows. (I give those for England and Wales for purposes of comparison)— Birth-rate. Death-rate. Zymotic Death-rate. Infantile Mortality. 1 st Quarter—Penzance ... 29' 1 18-88 72 135*8 ,, England and Wales 30-3 22-9 1 '59 148 2nd Quarter—Penzance ... ... 2176 16-64 •96 191-18 ,, England and Wales 29’3 17-7 1 -6i 13 I 3rd Quarter—Penzance ... ... 25-28 15’04 3 ’84 291-14 ,, England and W ales 28-8 16-5 3 ’05 188 4th Quarter—Penzance ... ... 21-47 12-48 0 89'55 Non-Residents and Deaths at the West Cornwall Infirmary. Included in the above deaths are those of nine persons not belonging to the district. Of these three died at the West Cornwall Infirmary: one from Heart Disease, one from Phthisis, one from Tubercular Meningitis. Other deaths of visitors are one from Pneumonia, one from Phthisis, one from Gastric Ulcer, one (an infant) from “ Marasmus,” one from Senile decay, one from accident upon a fishing-boat. One death of a resident took place at the West Cornwall Infirmary—that of a child eight months old, after operation, followed by Pneumonia.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29986667_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
