[Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Aylsham R.D.C.

  • Aylsham (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1922
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Credit: [Report 1922] / Medical Officer of Health, Aylsham R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AYL3HAM RURAL DISTRICT. ANNUAL REPORT of the Medical Officer of Heal fe iG V 1922. 0O0 To the Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of the AYLSHAM RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. Ladies and Gentlemen, year 3 of less My Annual Report on the health of 1022 will be an Ordinary Report the Ministry of Health's circular lengthy than the Survey Report your District for the as defined in paragraph 269; such a Report bein which is required every fifth year. POPULATION. The population, as estimated by the Registrar General Mr the ’middle of the year 1522, is 16,430, showing an increase of 150 since the census of 1921. This figure will be taken in calculating the death and birth rates,and for general statistical purposes. At the census 1921, the population was shown to be 16,280, and decreasing at the rate of over 100 a year since the census 1911. Full information of the census figures are still withheld from Medical Officers of Health except on,the payment of a fee to the Registrar General. I am, therefore, unable at present to learn the population of individual parishes in the District or the number of separate dwellings. From inquiries I have mads at the office cf the Registrar General I am glad, to find that the price of this information is now greatly reduced, and I trust that ultimately it may be granted free of coot to Medical Officers of Health. BIRTHS. The number of births registered during the year was 568 “Ena the birth-rate for the District is 22.3, consider- ably higher than that for England and 'ales - 20.6 and slightly above last year's record for this District. There were 33 illegitimate births as compared with yi in the previous year. DEATHS. One hundred and ninety two deaths were registered giving a death-rate of 11.6 which compares very favourably with that of England and Hales, which was 12.5. The chief causes of death were Heart Disease 26, Cancer 25, and Tuberculosis 16. From infectious disease there were nien deaths, vis, from