[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdare U.D.C.

  • Aberdare (Wales). Urban District Council.
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdare U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    n 6 The following is a synopsis ol the vital statistics for the year:— Census population (1931) • 48,751 Registrar General’s Revised Population • 4i>78° Birth rate 13.6 Crude death rate ... ... ••• 15-3 Corrected death rate ... 16.5 Infantile mortality rate . 80.8 Diarrhoea death rate (under 2 years) .04 Respiratory death rate (excluding phthisis) 2.6 Phthisis death rate •71 Other tuberculous diseases death rate .09 Cancer death rate 1.2 RATEABLE VALUE. The rateable value is £156,672, and a penny rate is estimated to produce £572 • DEATHS. Six hundred and forty-one deaths actually occurred in the district, giving a crude death-rate of 15.3. The crude death-rate only takes into consideration the deaths which actually occurred in the district. Seventy-four residents died in other districts, giving a correc- ted death-rate of 16.5. • The death-rate per 1,000 living for England and Wales for the year ,940 was .4.31 for the ,26 great towns, ,5.8; for the ,48 smaller towns (census population, 25,00^-50,000), 12.8, a for London, 17.8.