[Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough.

Hastings (England). County Borough Council.

Date:: 1930

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Credit: [Report 1930] / Medical Officer of Health, Hastings County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The birth rate is 12 2 per 1,000 of the population. The table on p. 41 sets out very clearly the manner in which the birth-rate has fallen since 1900, the diminution in babies born now amounting' to over one-third of the total in 1900 or 430 babies. At the same time it would appear that we have reached the low water mark as regards the birth rate locally, the rate for the past five years varying from 12 6 to 12, the lowest being registered in 1928. (3) DEATHS. The total net deaths registered in Hastings in 1930 were 894, of whom 396 were males, 498 females. Not included were 147 deaths transferred to other districts ; included were 37 deaths of Hastings residents, occurring elsewhere. Deaths in Public Institutions were 373, 97 being transferred elsewhere. There were 66 Coroner’s inquests. The crude death-rate per 1,000 of the population is 14'28, which, corrected for the peculiar age and sex constitution of the population by the factor for correction, 718, gives a death rate of 10 25 per ] ,000. (4) ACE AT DEATH. Of the 993 deaths, 44 occurred in infants under one year of age, the infantile mortality being 57'4 per 1,000 births. From 1-5 years of age there were 28 deaths ; from 5-20 years 15 deaths ; from 20-45 years 65 deaths ; from 45-65 years 201 deaths; and over 65 years 532 deaths, or 53'6 per cent, of the total deaths. (5) MAIN CAUSES OF DEATH. As in previous years, three main groups stand out, diseases of the circulatory system, cancer, and diseases of the respiratory system, with which is included influenza. Apart from deaths from tuberculosis, the mortality from infectious diseases, both notifiable and noil-notifiable, was slight. The infantile mortality is dealt with in another section.