Comparative Mortality
- morning, when the world closed on the life of one whose manly virtues, whose simple and unassuming character may well be imitated by those who survive him.
Mr. Henry Inskipp was not the only member of the family to whom all the above-named virtues might be ascribed. My personal knowledge of the family enables me to say that just such a man was his brother Frederick, the many years faithful and scrupulously honourable, honest and single-minded clerk to the Hastings Board of Guardians. The same unpretentious, the same geniality, and to a great extent the same other good qualities - and, withal the same educational and mental endowments were observed in his other brothers, who, though born in Battle, lived and died in our own borough; hence the greater propriety of this notice.
General and Local Mortality
The Registrar-General's returns for three months in 1856 showed the general average mortality to have been nearly 21 in a thousand, which with the three preceding months, was much below the longer-period average, that being 23 per thousand, whilst the general average rate for the spring quarter was 24 per thousand in large towns and their suburbs. On an average of ten years (1841-50), the mortality in three English districts was 15 per 1000 in fourteen places; 16 in forty-seven; 17 in Eighty seven; and 18 in others. Thus, it is now an established fact that although English people go abroad for health, England is the healthiest country in Europe. In continental cities the annual death rate is seldom less than 30 per 1,000 and it frequently rises to 40.For the ten years 1841-'50, the average death-rate in proportion to population was
24 at Bath.
23 at Bristol, Clifton and Yarmouth
21 at Brighton, Dover, Scarborough, Whitby and Bangor.
20 at Tunbridge Wells, Cheltenham, Leamington, Harrowgate, Mattoc, &c.
19 at Ramsgate, Margate, Torquay and Teignmouth.
18 at Hastings and Malvern.
17 at Worthing, Arundel, Cowes, Ryde, Lowestoft and Ilfracombe.
In 1851, the Hastings district contained 21,215 inhabitants, of whom 3594 lived in the villages of Pett, Guestling, Farlight and Ore. The number of males was 9,786 and females, 11,429. In the seven years, 1838-'44, the Registrar-General gave the mortality of Hastings as 18.73 among males and 17.79 among females. The highest rate was 25.36 in the cholera year, 1849, and the lowest 15.80 in 1854. It might have been thought that in the sub-district the highest rate would have been found in the oldest and poorest parish of All Saints, rather than in the newer and richer parish of St. Mary-in-the-Castle; but whilst in the latter it was 19, in the former it was ony 18.48. This -
