[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Gwent) County Borough.

  • Newport (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Newport (Gwent) County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Births registered in the Borough during 1904, numbered 2,352— namely, 1,226 boys and 1,126 girls. Of this number 61 were returned as illegitimate, a percentage of 2-5 compared with a percentage of 1*7 during 1903. The birth rate for the year was 32*7. The natural increase in the population, or excess of births over deaths, was 1220, whilst the estimated total increase amounted to 1326. The birth rate during 1904 was ‘55 per 1,000 below the average of the previous ten years. DEATHS. The deaths registered numbered 1132, which afford a death rate of 15*7 per 1,000 inhabitants per annum, compared with 1 7* 1, the average death rate for the previous ten years. From an analysis of the Registrar’s Returns, I find that 172 deaths occurred in public institutions, viz., the Union Workhouse, County Infirmary, Allt-yr-yn Hospital, Ac, a number equal to 15 1 percent, of the total deaths. The Medical Superintendent of Abergavenny Asylum informed me that 8 male and 12 female patients from the County Borough of Newport died in that Asylum during 1904. The Union Workhouse and Infirmary receive sick and infirm people from all parts of the Newport Union, which has a population of nearly 120,000. All the deaths which occur there are referred to Newport. During the year 19 deaths were registered at Newport, which either occurred outside the Borough or among patients received into Eublic Institutions from outlying districts. If these deaths were excluded from the returns the death rate would amount to 15*4 per annum. On the other hand, undoubtedly, many deaths occur annually among those who have gone from Newport to hospitals and sick institutions throughout the country. Such deaths are registered in the districts where they occur, and are not referred by local registrars to the districts whence they came. The Census Table page]% gives the estimated population in each ward and the number of new houses rated in each ward since the Census of 1901. According to these data the estimated increase in population during 1904 should be divided among the ten wards in the following proportions :—Crindau 11-4 per cent., Caerau 15-6, St. Woolos *5, Tredegar -5, Alexandra 1*4, Central 2-5, St. Julian 14*5, Maindee 3*1, Victoria 4*5, and Lliswerry 45*6. 50 per cent, of the new houses erected are situated in Lliswerry and Victoria Wards.
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