[Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Bollington U.D.C.

  • Bollington (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1947
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Credit: [Report 1947] / Medical Officer of Health, Bollington U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (X) THE BOLLINGTON UHBM DISTRICT COUMCIL. AHMJAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, 1947. 1. ~ GEtTERAL STATISTICS. Population 4980 Area (Acres) 1442 Nun'ber of inhabited houses l677 Estimated net produce of Id, rate £94 2, - SKTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS EOR Births. Legitimate Illegi'^lmate Males Females Total 43 40 83 1 6 “44 45 W Live B rth Rate 17.8 per 1,000 of estimated population. Hales Females Total Still Births 3 3 6 Birth rate of Stillborn children 63.x per 1,000 total live & still births Deaths (All Ages) Males Females Total 26 37 83 Crude Death Rate 12,6 per 1,000 Puerperal Sepsis Nil Other Pueperal causes Nil Hate per 1,000 births Nil Deaths of Children under 1 year. Males Females Total Legitimate 2 4 ^ Illegitimate _ • - Of the 6 infahtile deaths under 1 year, only two are recorded as having occurred in the village - one lived 30 minutes dxze to premature birth and the other was overlaid by the mother at the age of one month ( an accidental death). Death Rate of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births - Legitimate 67.4 Illegitimate Hil Number of women dying consequent of Child Sirth - Nil Death Bate from Tuberculosis, 1947» Pulmonary ,2 per thousand estimated population. Non-Pulmonary Nil per thous.and estimated population. Death Bate from Cancer 2,2 per thousand estimated population, Measles (All Ages) *2 ” ” VHiooping Co\igh Nil ” ” Diarrhoea (under 2 years) Nil From the above figures the outstanding features are During 1947 there were no noteworthy causes of sickness, nor had wo any deaths from \7hooping Cou^ or Dip;(;heria or any of the Epidemic Diseases, vdaich is a very satisfactory state of affairs. During 1947 there were no deaths in the village due to Childbirth and no cases of puerperal sepsis, which is veiy satisfactory, and has been so now for a number of years.