[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Oxford City.
- Oxford (England). City Council. no2012034102.
- Date:
- 1925
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Oxford City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Number of inhabited houses (1921), 12,318 (including- 11,456 undivided private houses). Number of families, or separate occupiers, 12,931. Rateable value April, 1925, ^487,693. Sum represented by a penny rate, jQ 1,960. Social Conditions. Chief occupations calculated per 1,000 persons over twelve years of age. Males. Commerce and Finance (excluding clerks) . Professional Occupations Persona] Service Railway and Road Transport Metal Workers Printers Females. Personal Service Professional Occupation (excluding clerks) . Commerce and Finance Textile Workers and makers of textile goods 93 80 7l 69 49 36 203 41 40 Vital Statistics. The birth, deatfy and infant mortality rates for the last five years are shown in the following table. Year. Population Births Number. Rate. Deaths. Number. Rate. Infant Deaths. Number. Hate. I92 I 56400 929 16,47 599 10.63 34 36.6 I922 565IO 902 15.96 721 I2-75 54 58*7 X923 56920 876 15-39 591 10.38 39 44*5 !924 57260 878 I5'3° 684 11.94 46 52-4 l92S 57090 882 C5-45 675 11.82 45 51.0 The standard death rate for 1925 was 10.16. The birth and death rates are calculated per 1000 of the population, and those for infant deaths per 1000 births. The 882 births (boys 480, girls 402) include 29 infants who were born away from Oxford; 37 or 4.2 per cent, of the births were registered as being illegitimate. There was a siderable rise after its termination, the figure for 1920' being war (only 656 being registered in 1917), followed by a con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29942354_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
