[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Wallasey Local Board / U.D.C. / County Borough.
- Wallasey (England). Local Board.
- Date:
- 1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Wallasey Local Board / U.D.C. / County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![got at the Census of 1901 by ascertaining the age and sex of the population in these 76 Towns, and a factor has been ascertained for each Town. For Wallasey it is 1.0950. Our Death-Rate, 13.19, multiplied by the factor 1.0950, gives a Rate of 14.44, be., the Rate corrected for variation of age and sex distribution.] The Registrar-General credits us with a considerably lower Death- Rate, because he places our population at 62,480, on the estimate that we are increasing at the same ratio as we did between 1891 and 1901—which I am satisfied is a mistake ; but this is his basis for all Towns alike, as he does not go into any local details or seek local estimates. Of the 748 recorded Deaths, 371 were males and 377 females. I have this year made an estimate of the Density of Population in our District, and give it below as at the end of 1905. Density of Population for the whole of the Wallasey Urban District. Population at end of 1905 = 59,000. Acreage . . . . . . = 3,408.153 acres. Density . . . . . . = 17.31 per acre. For the Townships. Poulton-cum-Seacombe—acreage 830.399 acres. Density = 20.24 per acre. Discard.„ 981.798 „ „ = 32.24 Wallasey .. .. ,, 1,595.956 ,, ,, = 3.50 ,, Seacombe itself is very well covered with houses, but Poulton still includes a large area uncovered, and lienee the density in Poulton-cum- Seacombe is less than in Liscard. Wallasey, of course, includes a large area of agricultural land, both between Seaview Road and Wallasey Church, and also along Leasowe Road and the sea, and hence the small proportion to the acre. The Death-Rate for England and Wales was 15.2; for Rural England and Wales, 14.9 ; for the 76 Great Towns, 15.7 ; and for 141 smaller towns, 14.4.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30228529_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
