[Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Pudsey Borough.

  • Pudsey (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1963
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Credit: [Report 1963] / Medical Officer of Health, Pudsey Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL and vital statistics Area of the Borough In acre3 Population (Registrar General:s raid-yea,' estimate) Average density of population Number of inhabited dwellings Average number of persons per dwelling Rateable value of the Borough income of a penny rate 5,323 36 , 660 6,89 per acre 13,158 2.79 £970.417 £3858 The Borough is divided into 7 wards VITAL STATISTICS There were 718 children (368 males and 350 females) born alive to mothers normally resident in the Borough durirg the year coapa ei with 731 in 1962. This is eauivalent to a live birth rate of 9.6 per thousand of the pppulation which suggests a levelling out of the rise in the rate which has oee-i occurring of recent years and a check to the bulge* which has been noted. However this rate is still vslT above the national figure of 17.2, and the rate for the West Riding of 18.3. Last year I commented on the low rate of illegitimacy in the Borough, out this year it has risen from 3.15? of all live birfhs to 5.57? represented by 40 illegitimate (22 rale and 18 vena's). This is still below the figure for Englabd and Wars of 6.6?. In addition to the 7 3 live b‘:*vis there were 17 stillbirths’(11 male and 6 female) all of which were legitimate. This s virtual]; 'e sme ss ast year and represents a stillbirth rate of 23.1 per thousand total berths. The national stillbirth rate was 17.3 so we still have some way to get down to this figure. 384 residents (218 aale and 166 vasales) died during the yaar, three less than during 1962. With tne increased population this gives a death rats of 10.5 per thousand of the population as compared with 10. 5 in the previous year, and continues the downward trend noted in recent years. ; have prepared a table shov'»g the cause* of death by aQe and sex fro* which it will be seen that of the 10 wno died between the end of their first week of life and their 44th birthday 8 were the Victims of £ccidai.t$. Once again heart diseases were the major cause of death accounting for two ou„ of every rive deaths ana a.jiosf half of the female deaths. Cancer was the second most common cause being responsible for 74 deaths. The individual type of cancer responsible for most deaths in this group was lung cancer which caused the deaths of 14 men, half of who* died before they reached the no ma !y accepted retiring age. vhia together with the other chronic lung disease - bronchitis accounted for the deatns of more than one in every nine male deaths but only one in fori'/ vernal® deaths. The actual figures are 25 male deaths and 4 female, which is a greater sax diffarence than from any other group of diseases affecting both sexes. Thera can be no doubt that ordi.iary environmental causes do not product the difference and that the smoking habits of men account for it in very large measure.