[Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City.

  • Wakefield (England). City Council.
Date:
1943
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Credit: [Report 1943] / Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL STATISTICS. Area (in acres) 5,300 Population (a) Census, 1931 (b) Registrar-General’s estimate, mid-year 1943 (civilians only) 59,311 54,120 Number of inhabited houses. (a) Census, 1931 . . . . . . . . 14,259 (b) End of 1943, according to Rate Books 16,000 Rateable Value, 1st April, 1943 . . . . . . £386,248 Sum represented by a penny rate, 1943-44. (Gross). £1,527 16s. 9d. Total M. F, Registered Live Births : Legitimate 879 448 411 Illegitimate 47 22 25 906 470 436 Birth-rate per 1,000 estimated population • • • • 16.7 Total Mo Fo Still-Births .. 28 14 14 Still-Birth rate per 1,000 (live and still) births . . * • 29 Total Mo F. Deaths 723 383 340 Death-rate per 1,000 population . . . . • • 13.1 Maternal Deaths Puerperal Infection . . . . . 1 Rate? s per t — Other puerperal causes . . . . . . 1 | ! 1,000 total 1.16 — 1 i (live a,nd — Total 11 [ still) births] 1 16 Deaths of infants under 1 year of age:— All infants . . 49 Rate per 1,000 live births . . 56 Legitimate infants 49 Rate per 1,000 leg. live births 59 Illegitimate infants :— Rate per 1,000 illeg. live births —