[Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough.

  • Smethwick (Worcestershire, England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1923
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Credit: [Report 1923] / Medical Officer of Health, Smethwick County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Annual Report, 1923. GENERAL STATISTICS. Area: 1929 acres. Population: (Census, 1921), 75,757. (Registrar-General’s Estimate Mid-year, 1923), 78,450. Number of inhabited houses: 15,897. Number of families or separate occupiers (1921): 16,366. Rateable value: £334,452 17s. 6d. Sum represented by a penny rate: £1,255 17s. EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR. Total. Males. Females Births : Legitimate ... 1,542 759 783 Illegitimate 46 22 24 Total ... 1,588 781 807 Birth-Rate: 20.24 per 1,000 of the population. Marriages : 654. Marriage rate : 16.6 per 1,000. Deaths: Total, 849—Males 471, Females 378. Death-rate: 10.82 per 1.000 of the population. Number of women dying in, or in consequence of child-birth: From Sepsis, 7; from other causes, 4. Deaths of Infants under one year of age per 1,000 births:—Legiti- mate, 62.9; Illegitimate, 152.1; Total, 65.49. Deaths from: — Rate per 1,000 of Number. Population. Measles ... 23 0.29 Whooping Cough ... 4 0.05 Diarrhoea (under 2 years) ... 12 0.15 Scarlet Fever ... 4 0.05 Diphtheria ... 19 0.24 Inlluenza ... 22 0.28 Cancer ... 82 1.04 Respiratory Diseases ... ... 143 1.82 Pulmonary Tuberculosis ... 73 0.93 Other forms of Tuberculosis ... 14 0.17