[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, St Helens County Borough.

St. Helens (Merseyside, England). County Borough Council.

Date:: 1925

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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, St Helens County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Infant Mortality 1000 Deaths from Measles (all ages) • • • • « • • • • 1 7 ,, Whooping Cough ( all ages) 33 ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) ... 28 ,, Tuberculosis • •• • • • ••• 122 Zymotic Death Rate • •• • • • ••• ... 0-85 Table 3 gives a summary o f the vital statistics for St. Helens since 1873. POPULATION.— The procedure followed in adjusting the local census population of 1921 in order to arrive at an estimate of the resident population of St. Helens for that year, which could suitably be used in connection with statistics of births and deaths, is described in the Annual Report for 1921. The estimate of population as at 30th June, 1923, which is now given, has been based on the adjusted 1 92 1 figures, after allowance for the varying rate of natural increase as evidenced by the births and deaths in the area, and of migration as indicated from other sources of information such as the changes in the numbers on the Parliamentary Register and the migration returns obtained by the Board of Trade. According to such an adjustment the estimated mid-year population of St. Helens for 1925 was 109,600. The natural increase of population during 1925, i.e., the excess of the number of births over deaths was 1,314 ; the natural increase in 1924 was 1,320. The distribution and density of the population in the different wards of the Borough at the Census of 1911 and at 1921, and the estimated population of each ward at mid-year 1925, are shown in Table 4.