[Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Bolton County Borough.

  • Bolton (Greater Manchester, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1937
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1937] / Medical Officer of Health, Bolton County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    24/164 (page 8)
    births in the Count}' Boroughs of England and Wales has varied between 41 and 43 since 1931. Bolton has had a rate persistently higher than the average of the count}' boroughs. The statistical returns show that of the twenty county boroughs with the least satisfactory figures in relation to stillbirths, seventeen are Lancashire and Yorkshire cotton and woollen towns together with Merthyr Tydfil, Swansea and Stoke. Since 1931, only two county boroughs appear to have had a less satis- factory record than Bolton. The character of the towns with a high rate would suggest that there is a relation between stillbirths and the employment of married women in industry, and that in a general way the high stillbirth-rate in Bolton is associated with the large employ- ment of married women in industry. Deaths. Bolton had 2,420 deaths in 1937 giving a death-rate of 14-2 ])er 1,000 of the population. During the year 673 persons whose usual place of residence was in the area of this county borough died outside the borough ; of tlrese, 588 died in Townleys Hospital or Fishpool Institution and 32 died in Mental Hospitals. Non-residents who died in the area numbered 120, of whom 99 died in Bolton Royal Infirmary. 224 Bolton residents died in Bolton Royal Infirmary. Summary of the Principal Cause.s of Death, 1937. No. of Per cent, of total Deaths. Deaths. Infectious and Parasitic Diseases 277 11-44 Measles... 4 •16 W'hooping Cough 14 •57 Diphtheria 23 •95 Influenza 104 4-29 Erysipelas 5 •20 Encephalitis lethargica 4 •16 Pulmonary tubercidosis 92 3-80 Other forms of tuberculosis 18 •74 Other infectious and parasitic diseases . . 13 •53 Cancer and other Tumours 302 12-47 Cancer .. 290 11-98 Tumours 12 •49