[Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council.

  • Glamorgan (Wales). County Council. nb2014013905.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: [Report 1894] / Medical Officer of Health, Glamorgan County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BIRTHS. In populations of less than 1,000, annual rates, unless extending over a period of five or ten years, have but little significance. The births registered during the year were 18,158, as compared with 20,006 for 1893, and were in the proportion of 33 5 per 1,000 living; of these 13,311 were in urban and 4,847 in rural districts, giving a birth-rate for the former of 33'7, and for the latter of 33'3 per 1,000, on the estimated population. The County rate exceeds by 39 that for England and Wales, which was 29'6 or T2 less than in 1893. The local figures and rates are given in Table I., but the information as to sexes is incomplete in Neath Borough, Gower, Llangyfelach, and Newport. The birth-rates vary considerably from 42'7 to 20'2, and they exceed 40 in Mountain Ash (42’7), Maesteg (40.1), while the lowest were those for Oysterraouth (20-2), Porthcawl (22 2), Caerphilly (22'8), Gower (23T). The birth-rate for the rural is higher than that for the urban districts, which appears to be somewhat of an anomaly, but bears out the truth of what I have said before that many of our rural districts are urban in character. The high birth-rate for the county, though lower than in previous yeirs, is accounted for by the large artisan population, the predominance of young adults, and the early marriages f >r which its mining districts are noted. Generally speaking it was high in mining districts and low in agricultural and residential parts of the county. In the following table are shewn the average birth-rate of the administrative county and of the urban and rural districts respectively for the three years 1892-1894, together with the corresponding rates for England and Wales, and for the large towns in the kingdom :— Year. Birth-r ate per 1,000 Population. Glamorganshire. England and Wales. General. Urban. Rural. General. 33 Great Towns. 1892 355 36-8 342 30-5 31-9 1893 357 34-8 37-9 30-8 3P9 1894 33-5 33*7 33 3 29-6 30-7 DEATHS. The number of deaths registered amounted to 9,176, or 818 less than in the previous year, of these 6,667 occurred in Urban and 2,509 in Rural Districts, giving death rates of 16 8 and 1 7T respectively. This gives a County rate of 16-9, which is less by 22 per 1,000 than in 1893, but higher by *7 than that for England and Wales. The death rate for England and Wales was not only the lowest ever recorded, but so much as 1 a per 1,000 below the lowest previous x-ate, viz.181 in 1888 ; it was also about 2-6 per 1,000 below the mean annual rate during the preceding ten years. The death rate in the 33 great towns of the kingdom with a population estimated at 10,458,442 was 18'1 per 1,000. There is a considerable difference in the death rate of the different districts ranging from 8 6 to 22T. The highest death rates in the Urban Districts were Cowbridge (21'6), Mountain Ash (20 9), Merthyr (19’8), Aberdare (18'04); and in the Rural Districts, Merthyr (22-l), Pontardawe, East (19 4), Llanelly-Borough and Parish of Loughor (17'4), while the lowest in Urban Districts were Penarth (8’6), Barry and Cadoxton (10*9), Caerphilly (11 *9), Glyncorrug (12*6), Margam (13*7) ; and in the Rural Districts,