[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.

  • Chorley (England). Borough Council
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHORLEY, FEBRUARY 1906. TO THE CHORLEY TOWN COUNCIL. Gentlemen, The Vital statistics of the Borough of Chorley during the year 1905 are in accord with those obtaining throughout England and Wales in the progressive and remarkable diminution in the Birth- rate which, both throughout the Country and also in your Borough, was the lowest on record. Seven hundred and seventy-five (775) Births were registered in Chorley, of which three hundred and eighty-hve (385) were Males and three hundred and ninety (390) were Females, giving upon an estimated population of 29,000 the Birth-rate of 26*73. In 1904 the Birth-rate was estimated at 27*44 per thousand, and the average Birth-rate for the decade 1895—1904 was 29*79 per thousand, consequently in 1905 there has been a decrease in the Birth-rate as compared with that of 1904 of *71 per thousand and with the ten years average of 3 *06 per thousand. The Birth-rate throughout England and Wales in 1905 was 27*2 per thousand, that is *7 per thousand less than the Country’s Birth-rate in 1904 ; exactly the same decrease that has occurred in Chorley. Excluding the seventy-six large towns and the rural districts, and com- paring with the smaller towns, we find that the average Birth-rate of these towns was in 1905 26*9 per thousand, a rate just a little higher than that occurring in your Borough. The decrease in the Birth-rate has however been more marked during the last ten years in Chorley than in England and Wales gener- ally, the Birth-rate for Chorley in 1905 being 3*06 less than the average rate of the preceding ten years, whilst the average rate throughout the Country has only decreased 1 *8 per thousand during the same period. In Table A you will be able to note the gradual decline in the Birth-rate and also that for the last two years the rate in Chorley has been below the General Birth-rate of England and Wales. [3]