[Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council
Date:
1908
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Credit: [Report 1908] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHORLEY, FEBRUARY 1909. TO THE TOWN COUNCIL OF CHORLEY. Gentlemen, In presenting my Annual Report for 1908, I am glad to be able to congratulate you on the decided improvement in the Vital statistics, as compared not only with those obtaining in 1907 but also with the average of the previous decade. There has been in 1908 a considerable increase in the Birth-rate over that of 1907, and a decrease in the Death-rate of Deaths registered and of Deaths of residents; and also the Infantile Mortality has materially decreased in comparison with the statistics of 1907, and the average for the preceding ten years. Eight hundred and twenty-nine (829) Births were registered in the Borough during 1908, of which four hundred and thirty-four (434) were Males and three hundred and ninety-five (395) were Females. I estimate the population of the Borough in the middle of 1908 at 30,500, and accordingly calculate the Birth-rate of the year at 27'18 per thousand. The Birth-rate estimated for 1907 was 25*50, or R68 less than that of 1908, and the average Birth-rate for the last ten years was 27*98 or *8 more than that estimated for 1908. The Birth-rate throughout England and Wales in 1908 was 26*5 per thousand, and for the smaller towns, amongst which Chorley is enumerated, 26*0, so that the Birth-rate of Chorley is higher than the average rate of the Country or of the towns comparable to your Borough Thirty-one (31) Births registered were illegitimate, giving a percentage of illegitimate Births of 3*7, as compared with 3*4 in 1907 and 3*7 in 1906. In Table I. of the Local Government Board Tables appended to this Report, I have given the estimated population, the numbers of Births, and the Birth-rates of 1908 and the ten preceding years, and also the averages of the decade (1898—1907). Four hundred and sixty-eight (468) Deaths were registered during 1908, two hundred and twenty-seven (227) being of Males, and two hundred and forty-one (241) of Females. [3]