[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Towcester R.D.C.

  • Towcester (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Towcester R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Extracts from Vital LIVE BIRTHS Legitimate Illegitimate ... Birth-rate per 1,000 of the STILL-BIRTHS Rate per 1,000 total (lh DEATHS . Statistics of the Year, Total Male Female 146 65 81 ... 6 5 ]. 152 70 82 estimated population 11.8 Total Male Female ... 6 2 4 e and still) births 38 Total Male Female ... 182 97 85 Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 14'2 DEATHS from puerperal causes Puerperal Sepsis ... ... nil Other puerperal causes ... ... nil DEATH-RATE of Infants under 1 year of age : All infants per 1,000 live births ... ... 26'3 Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 20*5 Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 166*7 DEATHS from Cancer (all ages) ... ... 21 DEATHS from Measles (all ages) ... ... nil DEATHS from Whooping Cough (all ages) ... nil DEATHS from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) ... nil The death-rate exceeds the birth-rate by 2*4 per 1,000 o estimated population. As compared with 1937 the birth-rate is lower by 14 and the death-rate is lower by LI per 1,000 of the estimated population. The crude death-rate per 1,000 population for the year 1938 was 14*2 which, multiplied by the comparability factor 077 supplied by the Registrar-General, gave a corrected death-rate of 10*9 as compared with 1L6 for England and Wales. This death- rate of 10‘9 is the rate which, it is assumed, would be arrived at if the age and sex constitution of the Towcester Rural District were distributed in the same proportion as that of England and Wales as a whole.