[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council.

  • Warwickshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Office of the County Medical Officer of Health, IG, Northgate Street, Warwick, September 9ili, 1915. To The Warwickshire County Council. Mr. Chairman, My Lords and Gentlemen, 1. I have the honour to })rescnt niy Sixteenth Annual Report as County Medical Officer of Health, and the twenty-sixth 1 have made to 5anir Council on the Health of the Administrative County. 2. I propose to adopt the same system as in my last Reports, namely, to deal with the County as a whole, and then complete the Report by summarising those of the District Medical Officers of Health. In the statistics, the Birth, Death and Zymotic death- rates arc calculated per 1,000 persons estimated to be living, while the Infant Mortality is reckoned on the number of children who died under one year of age per 1,000 registered births. THE COUNTY AS A WHOLE. AREA. 3. The area of the County in acres taken from the figures in the Reports of the District Medical Officers is as follows :—In the LTrban Districts, 48,340, and in the Rural Districts 502,411, giving a total for the County of 550,751. POPULATION. 4. At the Census in April, 1911, it was found that the population now^ included in the area was 300,913 ; last year it was estimated at 312,657, while this year it is estimated at 320,013, and on this population the various rates of mortality have been calculated. The population has been increased during the year, according to the estimate by 7,350, a satisfactory increase compared with that of the previous year, which was 5,04.3. In the Urban Districts there was an estimated increase of 1,930 and in the Rural Districts the increase w^as estimated to be 5,420. 5. In the Urban Districts Rugby shows the highest increase in population, with an es¬ timated figure of 840, while for'Sutton Coldfield the figure is 518. In the Borough of Nuneaton the increase is estimated as being 455. a considerable falling off from the previous year when the estimated increase was 911. Leamington and Warwick are estimated lo have made no increase on 1913 figures. Among the Rural Districts, Foleshill stands first with an increase of 2,714, while Solihull shows one of 1,080. Tamworth and Atherstone have estimated increases respectively of 372 and 350. Brailes shows a slight decrease and Farnborough and Monks Kirby are estimated to be the same as m 1913.