[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough.

Bournemouth (England). County Borough Council. nb2004301338.

Date:: 1933

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Credit: [Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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GENERAL STATISTICS. Area of the County Borough Population: Census 1931 ... Estimated 1933 Estimated at mid-year 1933 by Registrar-General ... Number of inhabited houses ... Rateable Value, 1933 Sum represented by a penny rate 11,627 acres. 116,797. 123,000. 115,200. 28,650. £1,612,677. £6,400 EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR. Live Births Total M. F. C Legitimate 1205 605 600 (^Illegitimate 79 39 40 Still Births 44. Rate per 1,000 total births 33.13 Deaths, 1,618. Death-rate, 13.15 Birth-rate 10.44 (R.G. 11.14) (R.G. 14.04) Percentage of total deaths occuring in Public Institutions, 36.02 Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births :— 53.73 (Legitimate, 53.94. Illegitimate, 50.63). Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth :— From sepsis, 3. Other causes, 5. Deaths from Measles (all ages) 0 ; Whooping Cough 5 ; Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 5. SOCIAL CONDITIONS. No marked changes seem to have taken place during the year. There is no prominent industry in Bournemouth, so that it is not possible to quote statistics indicative of trade depression or otherwise. From figures kindly supplied by the Employment Exchange, it appears that a count of the Live Register is made once a month, and that on January 23rd,1933, there were unemployed, * 2,749 men, 46 boys, 437 women and 26 girls, a total of 3,258 On December, 18th, 1933, the corresponding figures were 2,161 men, 24 boys, 301 women and 19 girls, a total of 2,505.