HH62/1/CLACKM/19

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CLACKMANNAN.
Births and Deaths occurring in the District since 1st July, 1891.

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Density of Population, Birth Rate, Infantile, and other Death Rates.

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VITAL AND MORTALITY STATISTICS.

In the charts appended to this Report are shewn the total death-
rates and the zymotic death-rates of the whole county for 10 years.
For comparison with the conterminous counties of Kinross and Clack-
mannan, the corresponding death-rates for these counties are also given.
The dotted line representing the death-rate for Clackmannanshire begins
at the year 1878, with a death-rate of 20.7 per thousand of estimated
population, and reaches 20.9 in 1879; from this it falls to 17.0 in 1881,
and rises to 19.5 in 1883. Next year it has fallen to 16.5, and for the
last three years it remains about 19.
This chart upon the whole indicates that the death-rate in the
county from 1878 to 1887 has not been very high.
In the chart representing the zymotic death-rate shows great
fluctuations. In 1878 there was a high zymotic death-rate, but it fell
till 1881, after which there was a rise. In 1885, 1886 and 1887 the
zymotic death-rates were too high.
In separate tables are shewn the total death-rates, the infantile
death-rates, and other special death-rates during the last six months of
1891, calculated for the year, The total death-rate is not high, nor is
the infantile death-rate, and the other death-rates are not unusual.
In the table of Mortality it will be seen that a large proportion of
people 60 years old and upwards succumbed during the last half of 1891.
The death-rates for the Parish of Alloa are, as might be expected,
higher than the death-rates for the whole county, as the effects of a
dense population as in the Burgh of Alloa come into operation. The
total death rate is high, 20.3, and the zymotic death-rate is higher than
for the whole county. The epidemic of Scarlet Fever accounts for
4 deaths.
In going over the death returns for the Parish of Clackmannan I
was struck with the large number of deaths of children under 1 year,
and with this fact, that many of them were illegitimate. It would be of
interest to know if these infantile lives had been insured or not.