[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Bakewell R.D.C.

  • Bakewell (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Bakewell R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The table below gives a summa.ry of birth, death and infantile mortality rates over e. period of six years. It will bo seen that the birth and death rates both show a slight fall and that the infantilo death rate is well below that for the country as a whole - shown in the next table. BISTliS, DFbiTHS xiMD INMT MORTALITY iQR SIX YEARS 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 Birth Rato 15,52 16.24 14,1 16.8 18.6 17.0 Death Rate (all causes) 12.51 13.23 12.8 13.8 12.3 11,1 Deaths under 1 year (all causes per 1000 34,01 36.46 26,8 28.5 31,4 24.3 live births) T^^hE SliO/IKG CERTAIN VIT.iL STivTISTIGS CQMb^dblD TO OTHER CENTRES IN MGIuUTD im v7.*JJSS Engalnd 0 oc Wales 126 County (Boroughs (Sc Groat Towns including London 148 Smaller Towns - Re sident Population 25.000 - 50.000 London Adminis- trative County Bakewoll Rural D-istrict Live Birth Rato 'per 1000 Poptn.) 17,9 20,0 19.2 20.1 17.0 Death Rate (per 1000 Potn.] 10.8 11.6 10,7 11.6 11.1 Infant Mortality iDoaths imder 1 year ,34.0 per 1000 live births) 39,0 32.0 31.0 24,3 HOUSING Progress during the year 1948 has only been slow. Shortage of building materials, delay in obtaining the necessary fittings and the shortage of skilled lo-bour have eJ.1 been contributory factors. The allocation of houses for the District falls far short of requirements, there being long waiting lists of prospective tenants. The number of individual licences permitted to be issued was also insvifficient <and many applications had to bo deferred. Houses which becaone. vacant during the year and which were either let or sold have not substantially improved the situation. Every effort has been made to relieve matters by granting licences to adapt buildings to dwelling houses and to reconstruct buildings which in their existing state were unfit for human habitation. The number of houses erected by the Council was 24 and by private builders 19, \/fATER SUPPLIES Prom time to time temporary shortages occurred on some schemes, duo mostly to mechanical breakdowns-, particularly in the Plagg and Monyash Area, The spring yield during the year on the Stoke Platt scheme was adequate adthough there is ever increasing demand. The parishes situate on the
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