[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council.

  • Essex (England). County Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Essex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In proportion to the number of married women of child- bearing ages the birth-rate is much higher in the Rural Districts than in the Urban; and such districts as East Ham, with their large populations belonging almost entirely to the working classes, have lower birth-rates than districts with a better class population—in other words, the presumption that the working classes are increasing more rapidly in proportion than the other classes is erroneous, at least so far as Essex is concerned. Unfortunately statistics are not available for making the corrections in all districts, so that only the crude rates for most of the districts can be compared. These are given in Table B in the Appendix. TABLE III. Death-rates per 1,000 Population. Correction Factor. ] 90S. Mean 1890-1904. Crude. Corrected Crude. Corrected Urban Districts 1-036 11-7 121 14-4 14-9 Rural Districts ■8597 13-15 11 3 14-85 12-75 Administrative County •9769 12-1 11-8 14-5 14-15 England and Wales 1-0 15-2 15-2 17-8 17-8 Death-rates. The total deaths registered in the County* numbered 11,340, of which 8,090 occurred in the Urban Districts and 3,250 in the Rural. The births exceeded the deaths by 10,865 in the Urban Districts and by 2,764 in the Rural Districts, the total excess being about 600 more than in the previous year. The ratio of births to deaths is 2-2, as against 1*8 for England and Wales. In the above Table •Excluding those which occurred in the L.C.C. Asylum, Claybliry, and the West Ham Asylum, Ilford, and adding those in the County Asylum and certain other public institutions.