[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Surrey County Council.

  • Surrey (England). County Council
Date:
1959
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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Surrey County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rateable Value and Estimated Produce of a Penny Rate. The rateable value of the Administrative County on the 1st April, 1959, was £26,958,846, and the estimated produce of a Id. rate for general County purposes for the year 1959-60 was £109,981. VITAL STATISTICS. The principal vital statistics for the year 1959 are summarised below. Additional information is given in the paragraphs which follow Live births ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20,725 Live birth rate per 1,000 population ... ... ... ... 14.33 Still births ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 328 Still birth rate per 1,000 live and still births ... ... ... 15.58 Total live and still births ... ... ... ... ... ... 21,053 Infant deaths ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 390 Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births... ... ... ... 18.82 ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, legitimate births. 18.34 ,, „ ,, ,, ,, illegitimate births . 30.23 Neo-natal mortality rate (first four weeks) per 1,000 live births 13.70 Early neo-natal mortality rate (first week) per 1,000 live births 11.92 Peri-natal mortality rate (still births and deaths under one week) per 1,000 live and still births ... ... ... ... ... 27.31 Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births ... ... 3.99 Maternal deaths (including abortion) ... ... ... ... 5 Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 total births ... ... ... 0.24 The following statement compares the County birth and death rates for the year 1959 with the previous year and with the mean of the five years 1954-58. Live Birth Rate Per 1,000 Crude Death Rate 1 Population Death Rate from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. 1 Death Rate from Malignant Disease. Maternal Mortality per 1,000 Live and Still Births. Deaths of Infants under 1 year per 1,000 Live Births. 1954 . 13.13 10.96 0.11 1.96 0.38 19.35 1955 . 13.14 11.17 0.10 2.06 0.54 18.08 1956 . 13.37 11.50 0.09 2.06 0.63 17.88 1957 . 13.83 11.19 0.07 2.09 0.75 19.26 1958 . 14.24 11.24 0.07 2.10 0.43 16.72 Mean of 5 years, 1954-1958 ... 13.54 11.21 0.09 2.05 0.55 18.26 1959 . 14.33 11.47 0.06 2.17 0.24 18.82 Increase or decrease in 1959 on: 5 yoars average + 0.79 + 0.26 —0.03 + 0.12 —0.31 + 0.56 Previous year + 0.09 + 0.23 —0.01 + 0.07 —0.19 + 2.10 1. Births and Birth Rate. The live births registered in or belonging to the County during the year numbered 20,725, of which 10,609 were males and 10,116 females, as compared with 20,398 in the previous year, showing an increase of 327. The birth rate for the year was 14.33 as compared with 14.24 for the previous year. The live birth rate is based on the number of live births per 1,000 of the estimated population of the area. The local rates shown in the Table on page 9 are not validly comparable by reason of the fact that the areal populations on which they are based may be of widely differing sex-age constitutions. With a view to eliminating this element of variation the Registrar-General has supplied a comparability factor for each area and this when multiplied by the live birth rate of the area produces an adjusted rate which may be regarded as comparable with the adjusted rate of any other area or with the crude live birth rate for England and Wales. The factor for the Administrative County is 1.02, for the aggregate of Urban Districts 1.01 and for the Rural Districts 1.04. The effect of these factors on the 1959 crude live birth rates is shown below :— Administrative Urban Rural County. Districts. Districts, per 1,000 of estimated home population. Crude rates ... ... ... 14.33 14.04 16.53 Adjusted rates ... ... ... 14.62 14.18 17.19 The birth rate for England and Wales for 1959 was 16.5 and for 1958, 16.4. In addition to the 20,725 live births in Surrey, there were 328 still births and the rate of still births per 1,000 live and still births was 15.58 as compared with an average rate of 17.98 for the quinquennial period 1954-58. Of the 20,725 live births 827 or 3.99 per cent, were illegitimate, as compared with 839 or 4.11 per cent, in 1958.
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