[Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Wiltshire County Council.

  • Wiltshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1934
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Credit: [Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Wiltshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA. GENERAL STATISTICS. Area (acres) . .- . Population (Census 1931) Population (estimated 1934) . . . . . Number of Inhabited Houses (1931) . Number of families or separate Occupiers (1931) Rateable value for whole County (1st April, 1934) Estimated produce of a penny rate over whole County (1934-35) The practice of giving a separate figure which excludes the Military population of the County for the purpose of calculating the death-rate has been discontinued by the Registrar General, as deaths occurring amongst H.M. Forces are now assigned to the area of residence. The Ministry of Health's Order under section 46 of the Local Government Act, 1929, fixed April 1st, 1934, as the appointed day for the alteration of district boundaries. The number of urban districts remains the same but the 19 rural districts have been xeduced to 12, EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR. 860,829 303,258 305,000 75,615 78,216 £1,521,647 £5,952 1 Male. Female. Total. 1934 1933 1934 1933 1934 1933 Live Births :— Total 2252 2199 2084 2061 4336 4260 Legitimate 2149 2116 1994 1965 4143 4081 Illegitimate 103 83 90 96 193 179 Stillbirths 77 78 90 81 167 159 Deaths 1902 1823 1738 1820 3640 3643 Deaths from :—- Puerperal Sepsis _ ._„ 5 4 5 4 Other Puerperal causes — — 8 6 8 6 Total -—■ — 13 10 13 10 Deaths of infants under one year of age :— Total no 128 99 99 209 227 Legitimate 102 122 91 91 193 213 Illegitimate 8 6 8 8 16 14 Deaths from :— Measles (all ages) . _ _ _—. — 2 7 Whooping Cough (all ages) . — — — — 9 26 Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) . — — — — 9 10 Rate. 1934 | 1933 (Per 1,000 of the population) 14.21 13.58 0.63 13.93 13.34 0.59 (Per 1,000 births) 37.09 | 35.98 (Per 1,000 of the population) 11.93 I 11.91 (Per 1,000 births) 111 1.78 2.89 0.91 1.36 2.26 (Per 1,000 live births) 48.20 | 53.28 (Per 1,000 legiti¬ mate live births) 46.58 I 52.19 (Per 1,000 illegiti¬ mate live births) 82.90 78.21