[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Bognor Regis U.D.C.

  • Bognor Regis (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Bognor Regis U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BIRTHS The following figures show for 1951 and for each year since 1910, the number of births, the birth rates, and the proportion at birth of males and females. Total Births Males 1 ' Females Crude Birth Rate No. of males born per 100 females 1910 130 58 72 16.0 80.5 I9II 153 82 71 18.6 115-5 1912 133 68 65 15.8 104.6 1913 151 77 74 17-5 104. I 1914 165 79 86 18.7 91.8 1915 132 80 52 15.0 153-8 1916 121 58 63 14.6 92.1 1917 115 64 51 12.5 125-4 1918 123 54 69 13.2 78.2 1919 122 69 53 13-9 130-1 1920 172 96 76 19.7 126.3 1921 131 69 62 II.4 I 11.2 1922 118 65 53 10.2 122.6 1923 109 74 35 9.3 211.4 1924 127 66 61 10.4 108.2 1925 174 90 84 13-6 107.1 1926 169 86 83 12.0 103.6 1927 169 85 84 11.4 lOI.I 1928 179 98 81 II.I 120.1 1929 164 87 77 II.4 113-0 1930 162 84 78 10.3 107.6 1931 168 82 86 13-3 95-3 1932 169 72 97 12.9 74-2 1933 202 I 10 92 12.3 119.5 1934 225 106 119 12.5 89.1 1935 226 114 112 12.3 101.8 1936 235 I2I 114 12.4 106.1 1937 248 125 123 12.7 101.5 1938 260 135 125 13-1 108.0 1939 259 124 135 12.5 91-9 1940 252 126 126 10.8 100.0 1941 269 135 134 12.7 lOI.O 1942 402 217 185 19.2 117-3 1943 387 198 189 19.4 104.8 1944 394 201 193 18.4 104.1 1945 351 180 171 15-5 105-3 1946 402 206 196 16.5 105.1 1947 458 250 208 18.2 120.2 1948 383 203 180 14.8 112.8 1949 334 157 177 13-1 88.7 1950 302 144 158 II.8 91.1 1951 271 131 140 10.8 93-6 The Registrar-General has again supplied an “Area Comparability Factor” for adjusting the crude birth rate (i.e. the number of births per 1,000 of the population) to allow for the differing age and sex distribution of the population in different areas and to make it comparable with the birth rate of the country as a whole and of any other local area. The “Area Comparability Factor” for births for Bognor Regis for the year 1951 is 1.07. The adjusted birth rate for Bognor Regis for 1951 was, therefore, 11.6. The birth rate for England and Wales was 15.5.