[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Tt is just t’Wf'Tity years since the incorporation of the Borough, the ])0]iulation at tliat time hoing 77,200, and the density of tlie poi)ulation, averaged over tlie wliole incorporated area, 20 06 per acre. Tlie population at the middle of the year 1897 was 1 11,001, giving a density of 28'8.‘3 per acre over the whole Borough. But great as this increase is in the Gleneral Statement, it really does not convey an accurate idea of the true state of things, hecause it is chiefly in certain parts of the town tliat the greatest increase has taken place, and the suhurhan and semi-rural districts of Oxton, Claughton and Behingtou, have not increased in anything like the proportion that the Townships of Birkenhead and Tranmere have done. It is therefore in these two latter districts that the jiressure of crowding is most felt. Thus in 1878 the density of population in the towmship of Birkenhead was 39‘33, whilst it is now 50’62 per acre, and in the tow’nship of Tranmere it is now 31‘83 per acre as against 17 G4 in 1878. The following table shows the comparative figures for the different townships for 1878 and 1897. lOstimated Populatiou. Number of Per- sons per acre. Death-rate per 1000 per annum. 1878 1897 1878 1897 1878 1897 50336 64702 39‘33 50-62 22‘3 19-6 1W)06 34104 17-61 SVHS 17-7 15-3 2854 3902 8-89 8*7 7-9 3056 4923 3*75 6()4 1331 10.7 65 2108 3280 8*56 12-8 79 77260 111001 20-06 28-83 21-4 18-3 Had the death-rate in Birkenhead during the nineteen years, 1878-96, been at the same rate as that for 1897, some 2,8-10 persons would have been living on the 31st December, 1897, who had died during that period of time. In the succeeding pages of this Eeport will he found details of the various agencies in operation during the year for the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28926973_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
