[Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough.

  • Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Date:
1921
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Credit: [Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1.—General Statistics. Area (acres), 3,991. Population, 35,508 (preliminary figure). ,, 34,270, corrected for holiday popula- Census J py Registrar-General. 1921. Number of structurally sejjarate sets of premises intended or used for habitation, 8,178. . Number of separate occupiers, 8,774. Number of inhabited houses (1921), 7,933. Rateable value, £308,474. 8uni represented by a penny rate :— On Borough Rate ... ... ... £1,212. On General District Rate ... ... £1,194. ]\Iean annual temperature, 51.8 °F. Total rainfall, 16.45 inches.* Hours of bright sunshine, 1,795 hours, 6 minutes. * The lowest on record. t The highest amount recorded amongst inland health resorts keeping records for the Meteorological Office. 2.—Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year. Total. Males. Females. Births—Legitimate 482 241 241 ,, Rlegitirnate 31 16 15 Still births 20 13 7 Birth rate. (Registrar-General). 15.0 per thousand. Deaths ... ... ... 453 171 282 Crude death rate. (Registrar General). 13.2. Death rate corrected for age and sex constitution, 11.5 per thousand. Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, child birth—from sepsis, 1 ; from other causes, 3. Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births :— Legitimate, 43.6 ; illegitimate, 129.0. Total, 48.7