The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-05-12 00:00:00

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THE HEALTH OF WEYMOUTH.

Of the great watering plaest in England and Wales
there is not one which furnished in the last two years
at clean a bill of health as Weymouth. The mortality
was low, and it suffertid comparatively little from
tin contagious diseases. The health in the first quarter
of this year was very good, for the deaths numbered
only SO, and these corresponded to an annual rate I
201; per 1000 of the population, estimated to be in the
middle of this year 15,495, showing a growth of on
the total of ISS-1. That death-rate was a low one,
and was I's leas titan that of the 50 great towns in
England and Wales. There were hut 20 of them with
a lower ene. It had a higher death-rate than Brignton.
Ti.. latter is assunwil to have 114,672 inhabitants, and
a. tile deaths in it numbensi 315, they yielded a rate
15'0, whirl. WAA titan that of Weymouth.
.Igrtin, l‘iurnemouth is teditilAteti tohave A population
of 34,699, awl the 196 deaths in it were equal to 231,
Torquay, with 3037, lied 153 and 171. Hastings,
with :i2,306, hail 219 and 17* Falstisitinw and Sid-
month, with 11,210, bad 55 and 11114 respectively. It
is thus seen that the iloatlerate of 206 ill Wernotah
kAA hall that f lloarneapaith, but more than
that ill the "tiler..

Iti the first thic.• months of this year then• were
registered in the town and sulmlistricts oflVeyniouth
107 births, and these comprisetl 54 boys awl 53 girls.
The last I h•eetillver reiswt give only 96. and in the
ureemliim .• arch their were only 90. That wa., the
smallest total in the last • quarters, whilst the
greatest in that turn sias the 122 in .11 11043. The
aventge tin first periml of 18:42.34 led tul to expect
in Weymouth ill that id tido year 66 deaths, and as
the actual her was 80, tlit•y wen. Ii lliere. In
last Itecembe.r there were 72 or in thprellther
there were 78, hit the gmatest mortality in the last
two years was in March, 188.3, when there were SZI
cleaths. Ti,.- latter are three above what is given in
the prt•oott report. The sniallest total in 1/443-4 Was
4:1 in Seuteinlit.r, 1843. so there was a difference
lw.twetoi the tw extremes of 40. The 4;1 dt•atlis was
a most unusually small total, and enabled Wirtouth
to rank in that quarter as the lwaltliii•st ill England
and Wales. Iliul but that ttttttt ber fl 3 ilestle, lit•en
rmistered in each iif tin. quarters in 11443-4, ittsteml
the deaths allenilitillyr. as they did, tc. 743, they woild
have sod). 311. thereby allowing a saving of
199 lives lt must not be assumed from tllis that the
mortality Was t•xcessive, for actually the reverse Was
tile case, as the Ileatlin were loss than the average.
Weymouth ox es its continual tesal health to the
fact that it suffi.rs is, very little froni the principal
tyinoties. Tito... in the present rt•tunt were only
represented Hy one of tliarrluia. and in last I hvemlit.r
there were 4of measles and tliarrhoa. %Vi is
especially gmtifying in the recent reuorts iva s
the fact
that in 111143-4 it enjoyed almost a total y from
scarlet fever awl ft•vi.r, as the firma tram only fatal in
three ellowK, 111111 tile other ...11V in two. The SO deaths'
in the unment return included 37 males and 43
fi.males ; and of the total 13 of them were those
infants under one year, awl Si refemsl to wliolts
who had att.:tilos! 6.0 pars aliti upwards. There wen.
out deaths dw• t.• and 14 penows iliml in the
wortilmils.• anti Itosuititla The births in the town and
sulmlistricts of l'ortland were 62, and as the deaths
numbered 29, they wen. one more than what Was
anticiletttsl. In last I leveled wr the latter were 23, and
there Were then 7 fatal Mare of tiwasles and 2 iif
diarrh.ts. These were followed in last March by
only on.. of diphtlit.ria, The births in I'l•wey stab.
districtt. were allll the deaths 31. Ti,,' latter in
Ikvember were 17, lint in last .4 • there were only
7. Ifi•rcliester hat' 77 births a,,.1 54 deaths ; Ware.
ham, 36 and 34; SWitllaire, 22 and 13 ; Corte Castle,
19 and 11; 17$ and 113 ; Shaft...bury, 93 and
73 : littinninster, 70 awl 50; Illandford, 99 and 74 ;
Wimborne, 141 and 18,; and Sherhortit., 96 and 76
respectively. In altn.t all ..1 them the niortality was
in excess, and with the execution of dins. of them
there were but few deaths i,i them from the princiial
zytnotics. IMrchester hash 54 deaths, 10 in exams, 4
if which were tine to lorimilto,, and 'tie' each of wh..p-
ing cough and diarrlven.

Haim Ctnem.—The first earit dos st
dosing of ole,
kc., for the season commented on 'eillies&y. The
weather was not, however, very fEcouTabie.
THE WEYMOUTH AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETI. -
We beg to call attention to the grand dramatic, ,oesl,
and instrt ttttttttttt perb nuance to be given by this
society at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday evening
neat, the 13th May. Full particular* will appear
in posters, programmes, Ike.