[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Wallasey Local Board / U.D.C. / County Borough.

  • Wallasey (England). Local Board.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Wallasey Local Board / U.D.C. / County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. of Deaths. Death-rate. necessarily uncertain, as the so-called compounded houses (for which rates are paid by the landlord) do not appear on the rate books, and their number is not accurately known. It will be noticed that Liscard claims the largest share of new property. The deaths in 1904 amounted to 882, as compared with 765 in 1903, giving an increase of 117 in the number of recorded deaths in the District. This would give a Death-Rate of 15.47 per 1,000 per annum, but such is not the true Death-Rate, because of these deaths 28 were those of visitors, while on the other hand 60 persons belonging to our District died in Institutions in other places, viz. : 42 in Tranmere Workhouse, 17 in Liverpool Hospitals, and 1 in Warrington Work- house. 882 less 28 = 854. 854 plus 60 = 914. 914 deaths therefore give a corrected Rate of 16.03 [The Registrar-General has introduced a still further correction to give, as far as possible, a uniformity for age and sex in the population of the 76 Great Towns, among which Wallasey now ranks. This was got at the Census of 1901 by ascertaining the age and sex of the population in these 76 Towns, and a factor has been ascertained for each Town. For Wallasey it is 1.0950. Our Death-Rate, 16.03, multiplied by the factor 1.0950, gives a Rate of 17.55—i.e., the Rate corrected for variation of age and sex distribution.] The Registrar-General credits us with a considerably lower Death- Rate, because he places our population at 60,354—on the estimate that we are increasing at the same ratio as we did between 1891 and 1901—which I am satisfied is a mistake ; but this is his basis for all Towns alike, as he does not go into any local details or seek local estimates. For instance, he gives our Death-Rate for 1903 as 13.86, instead of my estimated Rate of 14.03, while his so-called corrected Rate for 1903 is 15.18—i.e., 13.86 multiplied by the factor 1.0950. Of the deaths, (as recorded in our District) 430 were males, and 452 females.