[Report 1942] / School Medical Officer of Health, Bury County Borough.

  • Bury (Greater Manchester, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / School Medical Officer of Health, Bury County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tithebarn Street, BURY. November, 1943. 'I'o the Chairman and Members of the Health Committee, Bury County Boroug'li. Ladies and Cen'h.emen, I liave pleasure in submitting the Annual Report for 1942 on the liealth of the inhabitants and on the sanitary conditions of Bury County Borough. As in other war years this is an abbreviated report. As before, records, statistics, and other important data relating to Public Health have again been placed in safe keeping for later inclusion in a full Report after the ternuhiation of hostilities. BIRTH RATE. The Registrar-General’s estimate of the population in Bury for the 3-ear 1942 was 54,020. This is much less than the census j^opulation of 5(3,182 taken in 1931. The birth rate based on the estimated population was 15.90 for 1,000 ])opulation. vSiiice rates such as birth rates are based on the population and are raised wlien the i)opulation is estimated at a low figure, a truer lierspeclive is obtained when numbers such as numbers of births, deatlis, etc., are contrasted and not rates compared. The total number of birtlis in 1912 was 85!), and this is the highest number of births registered in one 3-ear since 1923, when the number of births was 8G6. The number of births registered in 1940 and 1941 were 723 and 753 respective^. DEATH RATH. The death rate for 1942 was 13.83 per 1,000 poyjulation. In the vear there were 747 deaths, aut,! this is the lowest number e^•er recorded for this town, with the exception of the number 729 deaths in 1920. The •total number of deaths in 1942, 747, is .128 less than the average yearlv total of deaths for the period 1937—41, INFANTILE MORTALITY. This rate was (38 per 1,009 births,-the same rate as in 1941. Fifty-eigd)t children died in 1912 under the age of one year. This is 14 less than tlie next highest number, 02 in .1931, 22 more than the lowest iiumber ever recorded, 30 in 3939, and a little more than half the number, 102, who died in 1920. A table will be found in the main ])art of the Report. This table is worth studying, since it indicates the fall of infantile mortality during the last twentv-tive years. I'ift3' }Tars ago 257 infants died under one 3-ear of age in this Borough. CANCER DEATH RATE. One Imndreil and three per>ons died of cancer in 1942, which is 31 less than the number of cancer deaths in 1!)11. The average annual % 3- (