[Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1911
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1911] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    8/32 (page 8)
    in 1911, on© hundred and seventy-on© (171) per thousand, which was far in excess of that recorded in 1910, viz, on© hundred and thirty-thre© (133), the lowest on record. The very low Birth rate and the somewhat increased number of Deaths under one year of age account for this increased Infantile Mortality, which is exactly the same as that obtaining in the Borough in 1907. The average Infantile Mortality for the five years preceding 1911 was one hundred and forty-five (145) per thousand Births. The Infantile Mortality throughout England and Wales in 1911 was one hundred and thirty (130) per thousand Births, as compared with one hundred and six (106) in 1910. The Infantile Mortality in Chorley in 1911 was thirty-eiglit (38) per thousand higher than in 1910, whilst throughout England and Wales the increase was only twenty-four (24) per thousand. In Table I. (Local Government Board Tables) the Infantile Mortality for 1911 and each of the preceding five years is given, and in Table IV. the causes of Deaths of Infants under one year of age are detailed, together with the various, ages in weeks and months at which they occurred. Shortly to summarise the latter Table, eight (8) Deaths of Infants were due to Infectious diseases, viz, five (5) to Measles, two (2) to Diphtheria, and one (1) to Whooping Cough; twenty-nine (29) to Diarrhoea! Diseases, one (1) to Tubercular Disease, forty-seven (47) to Congenital Debility, Premature Birth, etc., and thirty-seven (37) to other causes, fourteen (14) of which were due to Pneumonia. Twenty (20) Infants died under on© week old, ten (10) between one and four weeks, and the remainder, ninety-two (92) between one and twelve months old. The Infantile Mortality of Legitimate Infants in 1911 was on© hundred and sixty-six, whilst that of Illegitimate Infants wms two hundred and fifty per thousand. Four (4) Deaths of Infants were uncertified, three (3) of which were under one week of age and the fourth was one month old. The Zymotic Death rate in 1911 was unusually high, viz, 2.96 per thousand. The Zymotic Death rates for the previous five years were as follow: — 1910 1.29 1909 1.95 1908 1.73 1907 1.93 1906 1.92 Average for five years (1906-1910)—1.76. The Zymotic Death rate in Chorley in 1911 was more than half as much again as the average Zymotic Death rate for the preceding five years, and more than twice as much as the rat© in 1910.