[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health. Summary of Statistics, 1.—GENERAL STATISTICS. Area of Administrative County ... ... (acres) 689,893 Population (for Death Rate) ... ... (1928) 712,080 Population (for Birth Rate) ... .. (1928) 713,820 Assessable Value at 31st December, 1928 ... £3,207,299 Sum represented by a penny rate... ... £13,363 14 11 2.—EXTRACTS FROM VITAE STATISTICS OF THE YEAR. Births (Legitimate) ... (Illegitimate) Total. M. F. ...13,287 6,850 6,437 ) 455 248 207 ] Birth-rate 19.1 Deaths. 7,528 3,905 3,563 Death-rate.10.5 Number of women dying in, or in consequence FYom sepsis ... 21 of, childbirth . From other causes 29 Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births :— Legitimate, 60 ; Illegitimate, 136 ; Total, 62. Deaths from Measles (all ages) . 48 ,, ,, Whooping Cough (all ages) . 22 ,, ,, Diarrhoea (under two years of age) . 97 Area and Population. I have again to record an alteration both in the area and population of the administrative county. On April 1st, 1928, the Perry Barr Urban District, containing 4,084 acres, with a population of 2,700, was absorbed partly by West Bromwich C.B., the City of Birmingham, and the borough of Sutton Coldfield.