[Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council.

  • Cheshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1893
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Credit: [Report 1893] / Medical Officer of Health, County Council of the Palatine of Chester / Cheshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Birth-rate per 1000 living—28.2. Death-rate per 1000 living—13-3. Death-rate from seven principal Zymotic diseases—l’l. Deaths under one year to 1000 births—122. This district has for registration purposes been divided into four sub.districts, viz. : Neston, Eastham, Bebington, and Woodchurch. Till quite recently the district had but three sub-district, Brimstage, Poulton-cum-Spital and Storeton (now constituting the sub-district of Bebington), being part of the sub-district of Eastham. Keeping to the old arrangement the sub-districts are as follows :— 1. Neston, having an area of 12,668 acres, and an esti- mated population of 3,640. It includes Puddington, Burton, Ledsham, Willaston, Ness, Raby, Thornton Hough, Gayton, and Heswall-with-Oldfield. 2. Eastham, having an area of 11,348 acres, and an estimated population of 8,558. It includes Great Sutton, Little Sutton, Whitby, Overpool, Netherpool, Childer Thornton, Hooton, Eastham, Brimstage, Poulton-cum-Spital, and Storeton. 3. Woodchurch, having an area of 12,610 acres, and an estimated population of 3,724. It includes Prenton, Woodchurch, Landican, Thingwall, Barnston, Pensby, Irby, Arrow, Thurstaston, Ca'idy, Frankby, Greasby, Grange (part of), Upton, Saughall Massie and Moreton. It will be noted that the estimated population of this district is much below the population recorded at the time of the Gensus. This is due to the fact that among those enumerated at Whitby, Netherpool, Hooton and Eastham, were 2,432 persons engaged on the Manchester Ship Canal. These remained in the district for a considerable part of 1892, but form no part of the local population in the year under review. In 1893, the birth-rates of the 3 sub-districts were respectively 27T, 29*6, and 23'6. The death rates of the 3 sub-districts were respectively 14-8, 12-8, and 12-0. The births registered in the whole district numbered 450, the deaths registered in the whole district (exclusive of six deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto) numbered 213. There were 18 deaths from the principal zymotic diseases, viz. : 1 small-pox, 1 measles, 2 scarlatina, 1 diphtheria, 1 whoop- ing-cough, 1 typhoid fever, and 11 diarrhoea. There was also a death from croup. Four deaths were from rheumatic fever, 11 from phthisis, 43 from bronchitis or pneumonia, 20 from heart disease, and 8 were from injuries.