[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council.
- Monmouthshire County Council
- Date:
- 1940
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![-2- VITAL STATISTICS. The Vital Statistics for England and Wales for the year 1940, compiled by the Registrar-General are as in the subjoined table. The Monmouthshire figures are given for the purpose of comparison. Birth rate per 1,000 Population Death | Live ; Births I [AND AND WALES County Boroughs and | 1939 I 15.0 Still! Live j Still Birrha!Births i Births 1939 rate per 1,000 Deaths under living one year [per I l,(-00 I births 1.940 0,59 i.-f - o 1940 0.55 ,1939 1940 112.1 14.3 1 1939 i 50.0 sat Towns,.including ; id on ... « • • * *. • l 14.8 Smaller Towns j stimated resident cpulatlon 25,000 to L 0,000 at census 1931) 15.o ion 12.3 MOUTH SHIRE , 1 15.9 ! 0.57 0.44 0.85 15.7 13.7 16.5 0,55 .0,44 111.2 12.8 0.90 111.9 17.8 |l2.8 13.4 40.0 148.0 ! 61.2 1940 55.0 0„ b9 ! 16.0' I 0,64 |12.0 15.8 |53.0 .61.0 54.0 50.0 67.7 In all cases the estimated population as■ supplied by .the Registrar .eral have been used for the purpose of this table. ffl; t » * * BIRTHS.- The number of births assigned to tho Administrative County • 1940 was 5,238 made up as follows i- , f ••I i Legitimate!- Illegitimate,j Total' ' M. j F. i j T Mo F. . M. frban Districts 12371 ] 2151 ' •• , j ; j lural Districts j 288 2$0 j 14 .. v.... ..-j. ... . *2659 I 2411 ; 86 i T 70 12 82 12443 | 302 j • F. 2221 272 2745 1. 2493 GRAND TOTAL 4664 574 5238 There were 403 more births in 1940 than in 1939 when there woro 4,835 ?ths. In 1938 there were 4,944 births, in 1937 there woro 4,861 births, 19.36 5,088 births. Tho birth rate for 1940 (16.5.per 1,000 porsons living) is .6 higher m that for 1939 (15.9). The birth rate for England and Walos for tho year 1940 was 14.6. For the Urban districts of tho County the birth rato was 17.08 per D00 for 1940, and for tho Rural Districts •, 13.3 compared with 16.4 and .2 respectively in 1939 and 16.5 and 13.1 in 1938. Tho number of births of illegitimate children was 168 which givos rato of 32.07 per 1,000 of tho total births, and .53 per 1,000 population, st year tho numbor was 159 equal to 32.8 por 1,000 births and .52 por 000 of population. For tho yoar 1938 the figuros woro 189 equal to 38.2 r 1,000 births and .61 p-or 1,000 population. i* ’](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28861607_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
