[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough.

  • Newcastle-under-Lyme (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6, Queen Street, NEWCASTLE-UNDE R-LYME, Staffs. 30th, June, 1953. His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. Ladies and Gentlemen, In introducing the report on the health of the Borough for [952 I consider certain points might be brought to your notice as being of particular interest. The Registrar's estimate of the population for 1952 shows a decrease of 10 over the estimate of the population for the previous year in spite of the fact that the nuinoer of inhabited houses at the end or the year had increased by 319 and the population of the Borough according to the 1951 census having been 70,028. The total number of live births occurring in the Borough during the year under review was 1,094, giving a live birth rate of 16.67, compared with that of 15.41 for the previous year and thus once again returning the birth rate for Newcastle to a figure above that for England and Wales. It is gratifying to know that this year the still birth rate of 0.34 is below that for England and Wales with a rate of 0.35 and compared very favourably with the rate for the Borough for 1951 of 0.42 and 1950 of 0.52. The death rate of infants under one year of age per thousand live births has very considerably increased, the figure in 1950 having been 36.04, in 1951 36.24 and this year 42.04, whilst the comparable rate for England and Wales is only 27.6. Turning to causes of deaths it is interesting to note that the total number of deaths registered from respiratory and other forms of tuberculosis were exactly similar in 1951 and 1952. There was, however, a marked increase of deaths from cancer of the stomach, which for 1952 totalled 30, compared with 20 in the previous year. Similar increases were apparent in deaths from other malignant growths with the exception of growths of the lung and bronchus. Comparable figures for 1951 being lungs and bronchus 19, breast 12, uterus 6.