[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-under-Lyme (Union) R.D.C.

  • Newcastle-under-Lyme (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Newcastle-under-Lyme (Union) R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT (INTERIM). of the MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH (Wo F. Young, M.B., D.P.H.) FOR THE YEAR 1940. PRELIMINARY NOTE Ministry of Health Circular 2314 of March,, 1941 required that Annual■Reports of Medical Officers of Health for the year 1940 should he on lines similar to those for 1939, viz., they should be .confined to essential and urgent matters which had affected the Public Health during the year, and should pay special attention to such of these as arose from or were connected with the War. The Circular suggested further that statistical and other records should be preserved so that after the termination of the War a report majr be written which will deal more fully with the period from the beginning' of 1959 to the end of the last complete year, separate statistics being given for each year in order that the annual records may, as far as is practicable, be continuous and complete . These requirements' have been complied with in connection • with the restricted form of Report which I now have the honour to present to the Council. SECTION A. Statistics and Social Conditions in the Area Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, mid-1940;- .. 16,780 Number of inhabited houses according to the Rate Books;- 4,587 Rateable Value, (October, 1940);- .. £57,314 Sum represented by a penny rate;- £218 England Newcastle-under¬ and Wales Lyme R.D. Birth Rate . 14.6 14.4 Death Rate . . .. .. 14.3 13.8X Infantile Mortality Rate 55 66 ^Comparability Factor 0.95