[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Wednesbury Borough.
- Wednesbury (England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1909
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Credit: [Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Wednesbury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![REPORT UPON THE , HEALTH OF WEDNESBURY, FOE THE YEAE 1909, BY WALTER GARMAN, M.D., Edin., Medical Officer of Health. TO THE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE WEDNESBURY TOWN COUNCIL. « Me. Mayoe and Gentlemen, I have pleasure in presenting to you my Annual Report for the year 1909. The statistics are calculated upon an assumed population of 27,000—the same figure as last year. Having regard to the number of inhabited houses, this figure should be very nearly correct. 1.—VITAL STATISTICS. The number of births registered during ]909 was 887 (males 454, females 433), which is equal to a birth-rate of 32'8 per 1,000 of the population. The natural increase of population by excess of births over deaths was 474. The deaths from all causes numbered 413, in which are included 12 deaths occurring in Public Institutions outside the town, and the death-rate was 152 per 1,000 of the population.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30241984_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
