[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.
- Staffordshire (England). County Council
- Date:
- 1900
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![25 sanitary conditions ; this being the case, and in view of the sanitary progress which has taken place, one must look to other causes to explain the growing infant death-rate, and among these causes in this County a prominent place, I fear, must be given to the prevailing practice of mothers leaving their homes to work in factories. Zymotic Death-Rate. The death-rate from zymotic diseases, including under this heading, according to the Registrar-General’s classifica¬ tion, the seven principal ones—viz,, small-pox, measles, scarlatina, diphtheria, fevers, whooping cough, and diarrhoea— is higher this year than last, in fact, with one exception (1898), it is the highest rate I have yet had to record. In the following table the comparative figures are given for the past twelve years, together with similar figures for England and Wales, and for the larger towns in England:— Zymotic Mortality per 1000 of Population. Districts in Administrative County. Urban. Rural. Urban & Rural combined. England and Wales. Large towns in England. 1889 . 2-36 1-17 1-99 2-40 2-72 1890 . 2-06 1-15 1-77 2-05 2-77 1891 . 2-00 1-36 1-82 1-83 2-41 1892 . 203 1-10 1-77 1-90 2-63 1893 . 2-41 1-58 2-17 2-47 317 1894 . 1-68 0-97 1-47 1-76 2-43 1895 . 2-39 1-15 2-04 2-14 2-82 1896 . 2-71 1-55 2-39 2T8 2-90 1897 . 2-91 1-57 2-54 215 2-87 1898 . 3-41 1-68 2-97 2-22 2-85 1899 . 2-54 1-27 2-22 2-21 2-81 1900 . 304 1-89 2-75 ] 2-00 2-50](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30131753_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
