PENRITH HERALD, October 24, 1874 / EAST WARD RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY.

[Barb Ontario Canada]

EAST WARD RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY.

 

At the meeting of this Authority at Kirkby Stephen on Monday last, THOS. MASON, Esq., inn the chair, DR. PAGE, Medical Officer of Health, presented his Quarterly Report of the health of the East Ward,, a follows: -

 

During the quarter ending September 30th, 121 births and 58 deaths were registered in the East Ward – 83 deaths were registered in the preceding quarter, and 71 in the corresponding quarter of last year.

 

BIRTH RATE. – The births were equivalent to an annual rate of 27.7 per 1,000; 9.7 per cent. were illegitimate.

 

DEATH RATE. – The mortality from all causes was at the rate of 13.3 deaths annually per 1,000. being the lowest death rate reached in the past twelve months; but further, if the deaths recorded among the labourers employed on the Settle and Carlisle Railway, 8 in number, be deducted, the death rate of what we may regard as the resident population falls to 11.4 per 1,000.  The per centage of deaths of children under one year of age amounted to 31.0 of the total deaths, and was equal to 15.0 of the registered births.

 

ZYMOTIC DISEASES. – The deaths from the principal zymotic diseases, including 1 from typhoid fever, 1 from measles, 2 from scarlet fever, and 3 from whooping cough, were at the rate of 2.0 per 1,000.  The fatal case of typhoid fever was of a navvy, who fell ill within two days of his arrival from the county of Durham, at Crosby Garrett Huts, and who, without doubt, brought the infection with him.  The state of the public health, therefore, in this district, has been exceedingly favourable during the summer quarter of 1874.

                            DAVID PAGE,

                                    Medical Officer of Health.

 

DR. PAGE remarked upon the unusually low rate of the mortality.  He should not be surprised to find, when the Registrar General’s Quarterly Report appeared, that East Ward stood in this respect at the top of the tree.

 

CROSBY GARRETT AND SOULBY.

 

MR. WILSON, the Sanitary Inspector, informed the Board that he had served notice upon several persons, upon whose premises removable nuisances existed, to cause them to be removed forthwith, and he was glad to report further that his notices had in general been promptly attended to.

 

A GUARDIAN:  Then there will be no need of sewerage.

MR. WILSON:   Wait till the wet weather fairly sets in.

M.R BOUSEFIELD:  Yes, it will then be seen whether or not sewerage is wanted.

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