[Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Gillingham (Kent) Borough.
- Gillingham (Kent, England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1927
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Gillingham (Kent) Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![IG VITAL STATISTICS. The following extract is required by the Ministry of Health :— 146 11*4 3 3 59 0 / 4 POPULATION. The population is estimated by the Registrar General as 57,510. The census figure in 1921 was 54,026. The natural increase of population (i.e., the excess of births and deaths) was 287 compared with 394 in the previous year. BIRTHS. Total. M. F. Births Legitimate 812 435 377 Illegitimate 32 12 20 Deaths • • • » * • 557 282 275 Birth Rate. Number of Women dying in or in) consequence of child birth Vfrom sepsis j other causes Deaths of Infants under one year per 1,000 births ... Legitimate, 55 4. Illegitimate, 156. Deaths from Measles (all ages) ,, Whooping Cough (all ages) ... ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) The births registered numbered 1002 but of these a percent- age belonged to outside districts, the mother residing only temporal ily in the Borough. The corrected figure is 844, giving a birth rate of 14*6 per 1000 of the population compared with ]6'4 in the previous year. Of the total births 3‘7 per cent were illegitimate. Ward Distribution of Births (Local Records). Ward. North South East West Brompton Medway No. of Births. ' 213 141 169 81 89 150 Total 843](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29255363_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
