[Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashbourne U.D.C.

  • Ashbourne (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1944
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Credit: [Report 1944] / Medical Officer of Health, Ashbourne U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^iliRARV ASKBOITRITS UR13AN DISTRICT GOWCIL Annual Report of tlie lvled5.cal Officer of the Year ended Slst Decoriher, lgi&A»V{l8 To the Chairman and Menhers of the Ashbourne Urba Council, Gentlemen, The area of the District is 1075 acres of land and water and the number of inhabited houses at the end of 1944 was 1554, IIo new houses have been erected during the year either by the Council or 537’ private enterprise. The rateable value of the district is £52,401, and the sum produced bjr'a Id rate is £131, Os, 2d, The population is estiraated at 4,869. Vital StadbisJ:J.^s_ ^T}.ie number of live births in 1944 was 97, of whom 55 were males and 42 females; six of the births were illegitimate, 5 wore males and 1 female as compared V'/ith a total of 12 in 1943, the number thus returning, approximatel3r, to the lower total of 1942, in which year there were only 5 illegitimate births. The number of still births was also less than in 1943, viz: 3, and all of them were illegitimate,- Tlie toto.l number of births v;as loss than in 1943 by 3, and than the total of 1942 by 2. In those ■'■’■cars the totals wer-e the highest on record, viz: 100 in 1943 and 99 in 1942. In the last year before 'bho war (1939) the total number of births was onl:?’ 58, Tlie birth Tate for 1944 is 19,92 as compared wi’bh 20.12 in 1943 and 19,68 in 1942. The birth rate for the 3'ear, 1944 is the second highest on record for the Urban District of Ashbourne. The birth rate for the whole of England and V/ales is 17,6 for 1944. The number of deaths in 1944 in the Urban District of Ashbourne was 57 of which 33 were males and 24- females, T]iis compares unfavourabl^r with 47 in 1943, 56 in 1942,. 52 in 1941 but is more favourable than in the tlircc preceding 3'-ears in each of which the total v/as over 70. The ago of those who die still continues high. More than half of the 57 had reached the ago of 70; 13 were over 80, and of those 13, eight v/erc over 85 and one had reached the age of 90. The death rate for 1944- is 11.7, considerabl^r above the phenomenal rate for 1943 and also higher than in 1942 and 194-1, but lov/er than in 3?-oars before this. The death rate for the whole of England a.nd Wales in 194-4 was about the same as in the Ashbourne Urban District, viz: 11.6, Infantile Mortalit3r Tlie number of deaths of infants undor ono’ TMBal? *of ITgo in 1944 was one male as compared vmth 2 deaths in 1943 and 5 in 1942, representing an infantile death rate of 10 as compared with 46 for the v/holo of England and V/ales, The conmionest single cause of death in the Urban District was, as usual, Heart Disease - there being 7 deaths of males and 4 of females, a total of 11 as compared with 9 in 1943. Tliore were, in addition, 6 deaths from intracranial vascular lesions such as cerebral hemorrhage, 5 of the 6 occur.ring in v/omen, an indication, probably, of the extra strain on the nervous and circulatory systems to v/hich women have been subjected during war conditions. The death rate for these circulator3r conditions in 194-4 is 3,5. Deaths from Rospirator3^ Diseases consisted of -tv/o deaths from Bronchitis and one frcrni Pneumonia, the first/