[Report 1896] / Medical Officer of Health, Paul U.D.C.

  • Paul (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1896
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    [2] Monthly and other Reports. Fourteen reports in all have been made to you by me during the year. These include twelve monthly reports of sickness and death, copies of which have been supplied to the County Council, Tables A and B.—Vital Statistics for 1896, and Comparison of the Rates for the District generally, and of the Death-rates within the separate localities, for the years 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896. Births during the year have numbered 170, deaths 83, giving a natural increase of 87 (over 50 per cent.) The birth-rate is 28.52, the death-rate 13.92, the lowest since 1892. As usual, more deaths of females than of males are registered, and this year the female element, as usual, slightly preponderates in the births. The infantile mortality is, happily, low—105.88, the lowest figure for the five years quoted. The zymotic death- rate for the year is 1.69. The following table shows the distribution of deaths between the sub-localities, while the columns appended compare their respective death-rates for 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, and 1896. Population. Deaths. Death-rates. (Census, 1891.) 1896. 1892. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. NEWLYN 3,323 39 13.54 21.06 16.6 14.44 11.74 MOUSEHOLE ... 1,602 30 12.48 14.35 14.4 13.1 18.73 REST OF DISTRICT 1,036 14 18.34 24.13 16.45 29.92 13.51 5,961 83 14.09 19.79 15.97 16.83 13.92 Mousehole, which in all previous years has shown the lowest death-rate, this year leaps to the other extreme and displays the highest. Two deaths of adults occurred there from Typhoid Fever, and three from Phthisis, but analysis of the Death Register shows that the main portion of the rise is due to a disproportionate infantile mortality, half the deaths under one year in the district, or 9 out of 18, having occurred at Mousehole. Three of these were of twin birth, and one of a prematurely born male. Of the remaining five one died of Broncho-pneumonia, one of Gastro-enteritis, two of “ Convulsions,” and one of “ Infantile Debility.” There were three other deaths from Bronchitis and Pneumonia under five years of age. It will be seen that the death-rates of Newlyn and of the rural portion of the district are much lower than in the previous years. The difference is due to a saving at both extremes of age, a smaller number of deaths being recorded this year among infants under 1, and persons over 65 years of age. This is, in all probability, due to the very favourable climatic conditions of the year—the high and equable run of the temperature, with absence of extremes, especially in the winter half, and the high average of bright sunshine. Scarlatina claimed two victims among children at Newlyn, and Whooping Cough one. Two deaths from Diarrhoea occurred at Newlyn of children and one of an aged person. From Phthisis two deaths took place at Newlyn of children and four of grown up persons. From Bronchitis and Pneumonia there were one death of a young child and two of grown up persons registered. In addition to these, one death of a child and two of adults from Heart Disease were recorded. In the country portion of the district one child died from Broncho-pneumonia, while above the age of five years there were one death from Bronchitis, four from Heart Disease, and one from Typhoid Fever, the latter in Paul Hill, near Newlyn.