[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Clevedon U.D.C.

  • Clevedon (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Clevedon U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PUBLIC HEALTH STAFF G. MACLBOl), M.C., M.A., M.D., D.P.II. Medical Officer of Health (part time) I. J. LEACH, M.R.S.I., M.R.I.P.H., M.I.H., Sanitaiy Inspector and Surveyor.] STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA. Total Area of Clevedon Urban District 3292 acres. Registrar-General's Estimate of Population 9413 Number of Inhabited Houses and Plats 2752 Rateable Value at present time £77*369 Sum represented by a penny rate £312:4:7.65 Live Births Legitimate Illegitimate Male *68 2 Female 12 3 Birth Rate per 1,000 of the population - 15•4 (The Birth Rate for England and Wales is 20.5) Total 140* 5 Still Births Legitimate Illegitimate Male 2 Female 2 Still Birth Rate ‘ per 1,000 of population - 0.42 ( ditto for England and Wales is 0.50) Deaths Death Rate Halo 84 Female llfT per 1,000 21.2 (uncorrected) 72.7 years Total 4 Total 200 Average Age at Death (The Death Rate for England and Wales is 12) Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age:- Male Female Total Legitimate 2 2 4 Illegitimate - - Infant Mortality Rato - 27 -5 (Figure for England and Wales is 41) Deaths of infants under 1 year occurred as under:- Ono infant died on the first day, two others at the end of the week, and thefourthat cloven months. Thcr^ have been no deaths of infants under two years of age from Diarrheoa. Deaths from some specified causes:- Sane of the principal causes of death have boon Halo Female Cancer and Malignant . Disease 17 15 Cardiovascular Diseases 29 52 Rospiratory Diseases 11 9 (excluding Tuberculosis) While those threo causes of death may be oxpectod to figure prominently in an elderly population, there would appoor to be signs of a ralative incroase in cancer of the lung#