[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I?nproveme?it at certain age groups. the improvement being one of only a little over I per cent. ; that from fifteen to twenty-five, however, the improvement again approached 18 per cent., whilst from twenty-five to sixty, which of all the age periods selected was that of greatest vigour and activity, the improvement was upwards of 21 per cent., and that even above the age of sixty the mortality showed a diminution of nearly 17 per cent. The years for which these figures were got out, as was pointed out at the time, were selected because the census figures were available for nearly the middle of each period of five years chosen. TABLE 3. Births and deaths registered in the City of Leeds in the four periods of 13 weeks ended respectively April 2nd , July 2nd October 1st, and December 31st, 1904. Deaths in age groups. Mortality FROM ALL CAUSES AT SUBJOINED AGES. 1 1904. Estimated population at these ages ... 2 Regis¬ tered Births. 3 At all Ages. 450,142 4 Under 1 Year. IU79I 5 1 and under 5- 40,545 6 5 and under i5- 92,283 7 i5 and under 25- 9°, 597 8 25 and under 60. 189,347 9 60 and upwards. 25,579 I. Quarter 3,216 2,300 515 <N 03 CO IOI 105 Ln La CO 629 II. Quarter 3.180 1,979 468 396 77 78 486 474 III. Quarter 3444 1,989 747 296 49 73 423 401 IV. Quarter 3,021 1,828 477 197 Vri CO 87 5i9 490 52 weeks. . . 12,561 8,096 2,207 I,28l 285 343 1,986 b994