[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster R.D.C.

  • Doncaster (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Doncaster R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The difficulty of estimating correctly a Population at the end the intercensal period is always great, but in your District, the influx of population owing to the Colliery and other developments is bound to add considerably to the margin of error, and I shall await with interest the results of the Census of 1921. BIRTHS. The total births were 1,498, or 380 more than in 1919, and equal to an annual Birth Rate of 36.8 per 1,000, or 9.4 more than in 1919. The Birth Rate is exactly the same as that of 19]4. The Birth Rate for England and Wales was 25.4 per 1,000, or 6.9 greater than 1919. Thus the increased Birth Rate of the country at large has been largely exceeded in this District. The male Births were 751 and female 747. 59 were illegitimate births, or 11 more than in 1919, 22 were male and 37 female, equal to an Annual Birth Rate of 1.4 per 1,000. BIRTH RATE, 1911 to 1920. 1911 1912 1913 * 1914 8 1915 * 1916 * 1917 * 1918 1919 1920 Av’ge 10 years BIRTH RATE .. 35-1 3213 34-9 36-8 33-7 30-6 25-5 26-3 27‘4 36 8 31-9 *War Years. Idiese figures are very re-assuring, as showing the unim- paired fecundity of the nation after an exhausting wTar and pestilence of Influenza, and are a. good augury for the future welfare and prosperity of the Nation. DEATHS. The total deaths were 498, or 105 less than in 1919, and equal to an Annual Death Rate of 12.2 per 1,000, or 3.2 less than in 1919. The Annual Death Rate for England and Wales was 12.4. The male deaths were 261, and the female 237. The natural increase of the population, i.e., the excess of births over deaths is 1,000. The saving of life has been chiefly due to the great fall- ing off in the number of deaths due to Influenza—only 11 deaths were registered, as compared with 113 in 1919, wrhen the third and last wave of the Pandemic Influenza subsided.