[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Guernsey.

  • Guernsey (Channel Islands). Council.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Guernsey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table I. (Incorp. Soc. of M. 0. H., 1900), for Whole District. Population estimated to middle of each year. BIRTHS. DEATHS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE. DEATHS AT ALL AGES. YEAR. Number. Rate per 1,000. Number. Rate per 1,000 registered. Number. Rate per 1,000. Column ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1897 37,801 1,157 30-60 193 166-8 708 18-73 1898 38,415 1,161 30-22 194 167-0 705 18-35 1899 39,072 1,121 28-69 151 134-7 666 17-04 1900 39,703 1,011 2546 145 143-4 624 15-72 1901 40,300 1,096 27-20 190 171-3 699 17-34 1902 40,550 1,128 27-80 161 142-7 657 16-20 1903 41,050 1,120 27-28 112 1000 597 14-54 1904 41,710 1,144 27-42 181 158-2 690 1654 1905 42,220 1,129 27T 155 1350 644 152 1906 42,730 1,112 260 154 138-4 588 13-7 Averages for ten years, 1897-1906. 40,355 1,117 27-77 163 1457 657 1633 1907 43,150 1,068 24-75 123 115-1 606 13-83 BIRTHS. The number of births registered during 1907 was 1,068, of which number 543 were males and 525 females, a rate of 2475 per 1,000. The average for the preceding ten years was 27*7, and this is the lowest figure on record, a statement which will be probably repeated in every succeeding annual report. Unfortunately the birth rate is lowest amongst the classes most able to successfully rear children, and highest among the poorer classes who are unable to give their children the same advantages as the more well-to-do of the population. In the future therefore more and more attention will have to be given towards ensuring that children be safeguarded from sickness and injurious influences as far as possible, and that a knowledge of the natural laws of health should take the place of ignorance and prejudice. The illegitimate birth rate is 25, and the number recorded at the Greffe Office 27. My attention has been called by a local medical man to the previous figures of illegitimacy given, which he produced evidence to shew were considerably