[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Lancaster Borough.

  • Lancaster (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Lancaster Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COMMENTS ON VITAL STATISTICS Population The Registrar-General’s estimate of the home population at mid¬ year, 1958, was 49,150, a decrease of 180 from the 1957 figure. The population at the 1951 census was 51,661 and since then the estimated figures have indicated a fairly steady decline each year, amounting in total to a loss in population of 2,551 or 4.9 per cent. The excess of deaths over live births during this same period of years is sufficient to account for only a small part of the estimated decrease in the population of the City, which must therefore mainly be attributed to migration. Births — ^ In 1958 there were 762 registered live births, 60 more than in the previous year, which gives a crude birth rate of 15.5 per 1,000 population. In order to compare local with national birth and death rates an adjust¬ ment must be made to the former to allow for differences in age and sex distribution. Lancaster’s adjusted birth rate of 16.7 may be com¬ pared with the crude rate for England and Wales (16.4) and with the adjusted rate for the Administrative County (16.5). Further details and comparisons are given in Table 3. Of the total births, 51 or 6.7 per cent, were illegitimate. Deaths Deaths from all causes numbered 753, 49 less than in the previous year, corresponding to a crude death rate of 15.3 per 1,000 population. After adjustment with the area comparability factor of 0.78, the rate was 11.9 per 1,000, which may be compared with the crude rate for England and Wales of 11.7 per 1,000. The adjusted death rate for the Administrative County in 1958 was 13.9 per 1,000 population, mortality in the North-Western region being consistently higher than in more favourable regions in the South, and therefore exceeding the national figure. Table 1 shows the deaths classified by cause and sex under the 36 main headings used by the Registrar-General, but the relative importance of the principal causes may be more clearly seen from the table below. Principal Causes of Death 1957 195S No. of Deaths Percent, of Total No. of Deaths Percent, of Total Heart and Circulatory Diseases . 315 39-3 294 39T Vascular Lesions of the Nervous System 100 125 102 13-6 Cancer (including Leukaemia) . 115 14 4 114 15T Respiratory Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) 106 132 117 15 5 Violence (including motor vehicle accidents) 25 3T 34 44 Diseases of the Digestive System . 9 IT 8 PI Diseases of the Kidney and Prostate . 10 P2 7 09 Tuberculosis (all forms) . 12 1-5 2 03 Infective Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis) 8 10 5 07 All other causes . 102 12-7 70 93 Total . 802 1000 753 100-0
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