[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Eccles Borough.

  • Eccles (Greater Manchester, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Eccles Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SOCIAL CONDITIONS AND OCCUPATIONS. Of the males over the age of 12 years 89.8 per cent are occupied. The principal group of occupations, in which the population of the Borough are employed, comprises commercial, professional and clerical occupations—21 per cent of the males being so employed. 19.G per cent, are engaged in engineering and metal trades; 10.9 per cent are railway or transport workers; 4.3 are textile workers, and 4.1 per cent are employed in the building trades. 35.9 per cent, of the females over the age of 12 years are employed, 10.4 per cent, being engaged in commercial or clerical occupations ; 10.0 per cent, in textile occupations; 6.1 per cent, in domestic or personal service and 31.4 per cent, in making textile goods or articles of dress. POOR LAW RELIEF. No of people in receipt of Out Door Relief .. 1297 No. of people in receipt of relief in Institution 558 No. of people in receipt of Hospital treatment 459 No of neople in receipt of medical relief other than Hospital treatment 84 VITAL STATISTICS. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year. Total Males Females Births (Legitimate) 764 386 378 Births (Illegitimate) 29 14 15 Deaths 509 241 268 Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth:— From Sepsis 0 From other causes 3 Deaths of Infants under one year of age:—'i’otal 54 Legitimate 51 Illegitimate 3 Deaths from Measles (all ages) 3 Deaths from Whooping Cough 6 Deaths from Diarrhoea (under two years of age 2 BIRTHS. The gross number of births registered in the Borough during the year was 831, an increase of 56 on the number registered during the previous year, equivalent to a birth rate of 18.08 per 1000 of the population. 419 of the children were males, and 412 were females. 34 children were illegitimate, ecjual to 4.09 per cent of the total registered. 6() children, of whom 7 wore illegitimate, born in the Union Hospital and ])rivate maternity homos in the Borough, belonged to other areas, while 28 children belonging to the Borough were born in St. Mary's Hospital and other institutions outside the Borough. The corrected number of births for the district was 793 equivalent to a corrected birth rate of 17.23 of which 29 or 3.65 per cent were illegitimate.