[Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C.

  • West Lancashire (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1900
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Credit: [Report 1900] / Medical Officer of Health, West Lancashire R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    being the same number as in the previous year, and 481 more than when the Census was taken in 1891, at which time the district contained 4,850 Inhabited Houses, occupied by 25,G84 persons. Ainsdale had 15 more houses inhabited than in the previous year, Bickerstaffe 3, Formby 10, Lydiate 12, Maghull 1, Melling 1, North Meols 9. Altcar and Tarleton remained station¬ ary, while Aughton had 14, Bispham 1, Downholland 8, Halsall 2, Hesketh 11, Rufford 1, Scarisbrick 11, and Simonswood 1 less than in the previous year. From these data I estimate that the Population at the middle of the year was 27,886, including 425 inmates in various Institutions. Birth Rate.—Six hundred and seventy-nine Births were registered in the District during the year, 332 boys and 347 girls; to this number must be added two which occurred in Ormskirk Workhouse, which gives a total of 681. These 681 Births are equal to a Birth - rate of 25.85 per 1000 of the population living, which is 1*59 above that for 1899, but is R23 below the average of the previous 10 years. Eleven or F6 per cent, of the whole were illegitimate. Death Rate.—The Deaths registered as having occurred in the District numbered 392, of which total 186 were males, and 206 females. To this number must be added the deaths of 21 persons belonging to the District which occurred in Ormskirk Workhouse, and the deaths of 4 persons in the Southport Fever Hospital situated in North Meols, of 3 in Shaftesbury House Asylum, Formby, of 3 in Manor House Epileptic Home, Maghull, of 1 in the Liverpool Union Convalescent Home, Maghull, and of 5 who were non-residents in the district, must be deducted. This gives the net total as 397, which gives a Death=rate of 14*23 per 1000 of the population. This is -27 below that of 1899, and ‘72 below the average of the 10 years ending 1899. Two other deaths occurred of persons not belonging to the district, viz. :_ A man from Liverpool while on his round delivering groceries in Lydiate was accidently drowned in the Canal. The second case was that of a Southport man who left the train at Ainsdale Station and died in the road within a few minutes. According to the instructions issued by the present Chief Medical Adviser to His Majesty’s Local Government Board such cases have to be classified as “ residents ” and included in the net death-rate.