[Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Sheffield City.

  • Sheffield (England). City Council
Date:
1934
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Credit: [Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Sheffield City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VITAL AND MORTAL STATISTICS. S'PECiAL Features.—The general death rate was lower than in 1933, and was lower than the rate for England and Wales. A new low record in the Infant Mortality rate was reached; for the second year in succession it was actually below the rate for England and Wales. The low Tuberculosis death rate constituted a new record, and its satisfactory position in the list of large towns was again w'cll maintained. The mortality rate among Children under two years of age from Diarrhceal di.seases Avas the lowest yet recorded, and was beloAV that for England and Wales. The mortality rates from Scarlet Fever and Enteric Fever were comparatively low. l)il)htheria assumed epidemic ])roportions and the mortality rate was the highest since 1926. Notwithstanding, it did not reach England’s figure. The jMaternal ^Mortality rate was definitely higher than the average, both as regards sepsis and all other puerperal causes. There was a marked increase in the mortality from Cancer as compared with the in-evious year’s figures. The rate was the highest on record for the city. The mortality from Influenza was low, and the low mortality from Bronchitis con¬ stituted a new record. Area.—■ The area of the City was increased on the 1st April, 1934, by the addition of 5,432 acres, comprising ])art of the parish of Norton, the townshi]) of Dore, part of the township of Totley and the liberty of Beauchief. The added area is largely agricultural and moorland. The total area of the City as extended on 1st April, 1934, is 39,583 acres. PoPULATiox.—The normal mid 1934 estimate of the population for the area as now constituted is given by the Registrar Ceneral as 520,950, but, for use with the comi)osite statistics now supplit'd, a working population figure, modified to take aecoAUit of the fact that the records do not wholly relate to the entire year, has been provided by the Registrar Cenex’al as 518,525. The area added to the City on the 1st April, 1934, contained at the 1931 Census a population of 6,500. It is interesting to note that this was an increase over the 1921 Census population (4,511) of 1,989, or 44 per cent. The City population estimate, year by year, is given in Table IV. With regard to the figures showing the distribution of population in Registration Sub-Districts and Sections, which appear in Table VI. the estimates have been based upon the 1931 Census, with additions in re.sjtect of new houses erected in these areas since the Census, and deductions for houses demolished, and a further pro rata reduction to bring the total down to the new estimate of the Registrar General.