[Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham (England). City Council.
Date:
1942
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Credit: [Report 1942] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    expansion, through Corporation assistance, of district nursing facilities in the city area ; the ever-growing importance of the City Hospital; and the establishment of the Blood Transfusion Service on a permanent basis for post-war needs. GENERAL STATISTICS FOR 1942. Instructions have been received that certain figures which might be of use to the enemy shall not be published. The number of inhabited houses, the population and actual numbers of births and deaths are not given. Rateable value .. .. . . . . £2,147,016 Sum represented by a penny rate (1942-3) . . £8,562 Rates in the pound (1942-3) . . . . . . 15/— Births. Birth-rate per 1,000 population = 18-15. This is the highest rate since 1926, when it was 18*4. It had been higher still for a few years prior to 1926. The illegitimate births, which in 1941 showed an increase of 88-7% over 1940 were, in 1942, 52-7% more numerous than in 1940. The stillbirth rate which in 1941 showed a welcome decline to 81-66 from the 1940 rate of 34-85, showed a slight increase (32-22). The stillbirth rate among illegitimates was over twice that among legitimates, a significant fact. Deaths. Death-rate per 1,000 population = 13-07. This is the civilian death-rate based on an estimate of the civilian population. The present civilian population differs from the peace-time population by the removal from it of many healthy young adults of both sexes