[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Ely R.D.C.

  • Ely (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Ely R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rate of 16*6 per thousand living ; a rate identical with that for the previous year. The mean rate for the previous ten years is 15’7. The death-rate in England and Wales for the year 1904 is given as 16'2 in the summary of the Registrar-General, contained in the appendix to his Report for the last quarter of the year. The deaths due to epidemic diseases are :—from Diphtheria, 1 ; Typhoid Fever, 1 ; Diarrhoea, 8 ; and Whooping Cough, 9 ; total, 14 ; equal to an annual death-rate from these diseases of IT2 per thousand living. The mean rate for the previous ten years is 0*89. Influenza has caused no deaths. The total number of births registered is 320 (170 males and 150 females), equal to a birth-rate of 25'8 per thousand living per annum. The mean rate for the previous ten years is 26’0. The birth-rate for England and Wales for the year 1904 is given as 27*9, which is 0'5 per thousand below the rate in 1903, and lower than the rate in any other year on record. The ratio of deaths under one year of age to 1,000 registered births is 100 ; the rate for the previous year was 93. The mean rate for the previous ten years is 104. After assigning to each sub-district its share of the deaths in the above three public institutions as per subjoined table, the vital statistics are respectively :—Hadden ham, general death-rate 16T, epidemic death-rate 0*00, birth-rate 20*3 ; Sutton, general death-rate 20*5, epidemic death-rate 2*97, birth-rate 25*8 ; Littleport, general death- rate 15*8, epidemic death-rate 1*18, birth-rate 29*2 ; Downham, general death-rate ]2’7, epidemic death-rate 0*0, birth-rate 27*7. Sub-District. Registered Deaths. Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Work-house. County Asylum. Total. Death Rate. Haddenham 48 2 2 2 54 16*1 Sutton 53 — 8 1 62 20*5 Littleport... 56 1 8 2 67 15*8 Downham 21 — 1 1 23 12*7 Total 178 3 19 6 206 16*6 Epidemic Death-rate. Influenza. Births and Birth-rate. Infantile Mortality.