[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Lydd U.D.C. / Borough.

  • Lydd (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1897
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Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Lydd U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <f>© ffie ©r emd (flecoberg ©f {Re BrkxaR |><amt<iir&j Gentlemen, I have the honour to submit to you my Annual Report on the Sanitary Condition of this Borough during the year ending December 31st, 1897, together with tabulated statements of the various vital statistics. The large number of cases of infectious disease again detracts from the favourable character of the Report. This constant recurrence, I need hardly say, is a serious menace to the continued health of the inhabitants, and most damaging to the reputation of the district. In this connection, the determination of the Authority to take steps to stamp out in their infancy such outbreaks, and the measures adopted, present some redeeming features that will receive attention in the body of the Report. Turning first to the vital statistics for the year— DEATHS. There were 32 deaths registered as occurring in Lydd during the year 1897. Now, two of these occurred in the persons of strangers temporarily resident in the Borough, and two were bodies of seamen washed ashore on the coast. Neither of these can fairly be included in our death total; but on the other hand one death took place in the Workhouse Infirmary of a Lydd inhabitant which must be added to it ; consequently, we have a corrected total of 29 on which to base the annual death rate. This is equal to a mean annual death rate of /3'0 per 1,000 of the population, which, though not so low as in the preceding year, may perhaps be favourably compared with that for the rural portion of England and Wales for the same period, which was i6‘4 per 1,000. BIRTHS DURING 1897. These numbered 54, of whom 26 were boys and 28 girls. These would be equivalent to a birth rate of 2U*3 per 1,000 as compared with— 7+ births and rate of 29'6 in 1896. 57 99 99 23-1 in 1895. 67 99 99 zyo in 1894. 8+ 99 99 37'° in 1893. 63 >» 99 257 in 1892. 73 99 9 9 3°'3 in 1891. 64 99 99 26-4 in 1890. 81 99 99 33*5 in 1889. and rate of 29-7 for England and Wales.