[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Sheffield City.

  • Sheffield (England). City Council
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Sheffield City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    <1 (2) giTee a birth rate of 26.7 1,000 living, fhe average rate for the pre^rious ten years was* 25.0. Giving to the doubt about the population figures, it is well to give the actaul number of births in these years. I'hey are set out below together with the birth rates. Year. Births. Rate per 1, 1910 12,664 28.1 1911 12.62h 2 7.-7 1912 12,887' 27.7 IQI3 15,288 28-^2 1914 15.004 27.5 1915 12,159 25-5 1916 12,063 23.8 1917 11.026 21.1 1918 10,746 20.6 1919 10,416 19.9 Ave rage1910-I9 12,086 25.0 1920 13,186 26.7 The birth rate for 1920 is I.7 higher than the average fcr the last decade and is the highest recorded since 1914-’ The decline in the birth rate' in Sheffield was ver^r rapid after the year 1914? will be seen from the above table. The first quarter of the year 1919 produced the lowest rate yet recorded, namely ?6.2 per 1,000 persons living per annum. Prom that time however there has been a marked increase, the quarterly birth rates being successive! for 1919 16.2, 16.8, 19*6 and 26.6 ? and for 192O, 28^8,26.9, 26.4 end 2 i 6 • ^Jeaths registeredc The number of deaths registered in the City during the year among the civil population was 6,66C- ma]i;ing a death rate of 1,000 living. This is the lowest death rate yet recorded for any year, the nearest being li.l for the year 1919^ '-^he average death rate for the decade 193.C--1919 was IS.9* Dwj.ng as before mentioned to fchs doubt as to of ''he population estimates. I gi'^s below a table a'S.owing deUGhs which occui’red amiuo-liy in Sheffield during the con 19j0—1920 together with the rate 'per 1,C0C, the accuracy the iTurber of years