[Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Stoke-upon-Trent Borough.

  • Stoke-on-Trent (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1970
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Credit: [Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Stoke-upon-Trent Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART 1. Vital Statistics AREA AND POPULATION Following the report of the Boundary Commission the area of the City was increased with effect from the 1st April, 11)65, the increased area of the City being 22,941) acres. It is 10 miles long, and in no part more than 5 miles wide. About 150 acres are covered with water. The Registrar General gives the civilian population of the City as 270,800 at the middle of 1970. This figure is a decrease of 1,460 on the figure supplied by the Registrar General for the previous year. The Registrar General in his Report on the Census, 1961, gave the population figure as 265,306. The populations at the Census periods were as follows:— 1921 1931 1951 1961 (Extended Area) 267,647 276,639 275,115 265,306 Table 1—Areas, Population in Wards at Census Area Ward Nos. Acreage Population 1951 1961 Persons Persons Males Females Persons per acre 11 Goldenhill/Tunstall 1,128 11,132 10,115 4,941 5,174 90 12 Tunstall 444 11,838 9,580 4,575 5,005 21-6 |3 Packmoor/Chell 1,708 12,603 14,580 7,236 7,344 8-5 It Longport/Burslem 561 10,035 6,743 3,223 3,520 120 |5 Burslem 417 11,302 9,747 4,643 5,104 23-4 ■6 Burslem 624 10,750 6,963 3,416 3,547 11-2 |7 Norton/Smallthorne 1,201 9,969 13,078 6,492 6,586 10-9 IS Sneyd Green/Milton 860 9,883 11,756 5,682 6,074 13-7 |9 Hanley 649 13,823 10,176 4,940 5,236 15-7 ■0 Hanley 424 11,667 8,399 4,068 4,331 19-8 ll Milton/Abbey Hulton 870 13,390 11,874 5,896 5,978 13-6 K Hartshill/Basford 637 11,969 10,985 5,206 5,779 17-2 I) Hanlev/Shelton 488 12,845 9,537 4,622 4,915 19-5 |l Hanlev 424 12,472 9,190 4,510 4,680 21 -7 v Hartshill/Penkhull 489 13,073 10,747 5,115 5,632 220 ■' Bucknall 1,596 5,328 19,306 9,667 9,639 121 t Stoke 525 10,930 9,833 4,772 5,061 18-7 1 Trent Vale/Trentham 2,086 9,674 12,782 6,259 6,523 6-1 1 Fenton 970 10,839 8,478 4,077 4,401 8-7 1 Longton 1,353 13,026 17,120 8,463 8,657 12-7 1 Fenton 715 9,680 8,156 3,977 4,179 11-4 1 Longton 558 13,167 10,228 4,873 5,355 18-3 1 Longton 1,252 11,960 11,012 5,411 5,601 8-8 l.Meir 1,230 13,760 14,921 7,335 7,586 12-1 Totals 21,209 275,115* 265,306 129,399 135,907 12-5 * Estimated population in Wards given for 1951 as the number of wards was uced in May, 1955 from 28 to 24.
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