[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Oldham County Borough.
- Oldham (England). County Borough Council. nb2004302054.
- Date:
- 1917
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Oldham County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![By the Medical Officer of I.le 3; FOR THE YEAR 1917. . Maternity T nrant Weir; Population at the Census 191].147 .911-1914—Number of Births (Yearly Average)... 3,. ,, —Average Birth Rate per 1,000 .. 2 ” Average Infantile Mortality Rate per 1,000 : Births. *;f! ~—Number of Births .. » —Birth Rate . —Infantile Mortality Rate • • • • • 6 • • • • • 2,1 1 1 INFANTILE DEATHS. Compared with the pre-war figures, there has bee yasiderable reduction in the number of infantile deal ''y_ h;ls been due to a great extent to the much sma r umher of births, and consequently to the smaller num o: children under the age of one year. The proportion c!illdren who die under the age of one year is, he erer, much smaller than it has ever been previously’in i ‘yreugA being only 108 per 1,000 births, compared w ' previous lowest rate of 117 per 1,000 in 1912. I gradual^ fall in this rate from 180, previous to the empk](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29936901_0082.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
