[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough.

  • Blackpool (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackpool County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Births. During the year there were 1,050 births registered in the Borough, to which must be added as belonging to Blackpool, 7 births in the Kirkham Workhouse, giving a total of 1,057, compared with 1,023 year. Of the 1,057 births, there were 547 males and 510 females. The birth-rate was 18.09 1,000 living, as compared with 17.91 last year, 26.46 for the quinquennium 1896-1900, and 22.33 for the quinquennium 1901-1905. For England and Wales the rate during 1907 was 26.3 per 1,000—the lowest on record. For the 76 great towns the rate was 27 per 1,000, and for 142 smaller towns it was 25.7. The birth- rate is therefore 0.18 per 1,000 above the rate for 1906, 4.24 below the average for the five years 1901-1905, and 8.21 below the rate for England and Wales for 1907. The declining birth-rate noted all over the country is very marked in Blackpool. For the five years 1896-1900 the average was 26^46. Since 1902 it has steadily fallen each year from 23.96 in 1902 to 17.91 in 1906, but this year the rate is higher by 0.18 per 1,000. The order of the Wards as regards birth-rates is exactly the same as last year, viz. Talbot, Foxhall, Waterloo, Claremont, Brunswick, and Bank Hey, var5i.ng from 20.20 in Talbot and 20.19 in Foxhall, to 11.86 in Bank Hey. Tal- bot and Foxhall are the Wards which have probably the largest proportion of residential houses as apart from company-houses. They are also the Wards (see p. 29 of 1902 Report) which have the males and females between the ages of 20 and 45 more nearly equal, therefore probably contain the largest number of married couples at the re-