[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire Council
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -Tlie (iKNERAl, STATISTICS. I’opulalion of tlic Administrative Comity in Kjoi was •nd in Population.- '^Thfli'JistrarTkMiei-al's estimate of the eivil population of the eombined rrban and Rural 1 tistriits for 1920 is 239,992. tal for ealeulatmg all death-rates. An estimated population simt^Lsriimate^ the Registrar-tieiieral, the iirchminary Census K^'port for 1.1 r>on iMihlkhed This report gives the iiopulation ol the Admmistiatue County as t'liVi'l' to wliiCh must lie tultlca tlw population of tlie i>arishcs of Bl>inliiM iitul VVfcton ((,«(|) KtUng a total f da.fMS to make it eon,parable with the estimate gtven above lor the combme,! ^iv taSi:;:, ir^iTbgbt'a i§i3rr Sra!; e^s Th^natund t'^ese two dates would account for an mcrea>e of population of about 2,200. THE I'RBAX AND Rl'RAI. POPULATION 01 Population at middle of 1920 Urb.in as estimated by 1 iisTRiCTS. Registrar-General Bishop’s Castle M.B. Bridgnorth M.B. Church Strettou Dawley Ellesmere Ludlow M.B. . . Market Drayton Newport Oakengates Os west rv M.B. DISTRIC'I S. Population ac Census pojiulation H)2I. Rur-M. mnldle of i()2o as estimated bv 1284 1472 1268 .oi-l3 1671 7.325 73SC Shrewsbiirv M.B. \ Wellington W em Wen lock M.B. Whitchurch 164!) 5*^55 4731 2994 11734 10055 ^,1268 (Birth R.) I ’0964 (Death R.).l 7‘'^57 1831 5C77 4710 ,’)05d 11344 4790 3101 ’) .1059 1.3304 57«7 8138 217(1 13712 5959 1 tiSTRKTS. Registrar-( je .Vtcham 205(13 Bridgnorth 8410 Pnirford 1324 (diirbury 2C)9o ( hurch Strettou 4(101 ( leobury Mortimer (1893 (dun (1203 Dray'ton 9930 lillesmere 7472 Ludlow 8855 Newport 5947 Oswestry 15183 Shifnal ooo() feme . . 1955 W'ellingtou 11294 Wem . . 8970 Whitchurch . . 2054 Census • populatioi 1921. JI978 85(19 12(18 3193 4519 7297 62431 71.591 8008 89t8u 5747 1(1313 7(5(i(i 1049 11207 8572 2011 3'. Ti-t^.Sra. tl,. i()2i census was (189, making a toliil of 8^55. 1 *• , 'Phe principal discre])ancies in the death-rates on account of the ^^ii^RuTa not being quite accurate are in the Church Strettou I rban Distnet ami ' Districts of Ellesmere where the rates have been overestimated by about - icS pci ‘ ^ ,li3n4^>f Shibmb 4 Osrvost,-y Cb-buu .„ul Burfm-.l, wlnuu a .umlar .nvie. has been made.