[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Newton Abbot R.D.C., Wolborough U.D.C., Dawlish U.D.C.

  • Newton Abbot (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, Newton Abbot R.D.C., Wolborough U.D.C., Dawlish U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “•Til* \ COL1.*: rKXDMX'C’V OF MO ■ ■■.’'lN oc I : IS < O\ 1' SN i'R v. 1 i.\ , I !*•»V TIIOSK FI KT I.\ WHICH MEDICI VK UKUW.S Si-T’.i K>f K ’ H >/ sV/.o7/7/, n-c-Crutv'Ior. *,• O , Frbru-v'y -!n<l, 1X!K. 1 S 9 3 . rrr TVTrrf'TT rTrrf rm r»yy vt-tt NEWTON ABBOT (RURAL;, VITAL STATISTICS.—The number of deaths registered in the above district (.luring- the year 1893, aim anted to 591, including 180 males and 205 females, equal to an annual rate of 14-08 per moo. I Aider the age of one year there were 70 deaths—between i ami years, a2—-between s and 1; years, 10—-between 1; and 2; years, 22—between 2 s and years, 22—between and 45 wars, 22 between 45 and 55*years, 25 —between 55 and 65 years, 38—and oyer 05 wars, 150, The infantile death-rate, the deaths under one year per 1000 births, was mj, against 84 in 1802. Probably in working out the above rates the population is somewhat underrated, for in Coekington alone, in 1892, sixty new houses were built, and in 189} forty-one otheis. • ^ . Although the death-rate is more than one per 1000 less than in the preceding war, \ et in all other respects the figures are not an improvement ; the birth-rate is rather lower, indeed the lowest yet attained, and the fluctuations in regard to tlu* senile and infantile rates are in the adverse direction ; the zymotic rate also {although still very low) has increased ; this, however, was to be expected, 1892 being the lowest record in this respect. For the same reason, an increase in consumption was also inev itable, as with such a low figure last year, a strong' fluctuation was assured. A wry satisfactory decrease, however, continues to be shewn under the head of “other tubercular diseases, This is a very important figure and in plain a