[Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, West Oxfordshire Combined Districts and Banbury R.D.C. (Chipping Norton Borough, Witney U.D.C., Woodstock Borough, Chipping Norton R.D.C., Witney R.D.C., Banbury R.D.C.).

  • West Oxfordshire Combined Districts.
Date:
1953
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Credit: [Report 1953] / Medical Officer of Health, West Oxfordshire Combined Districts and Banbury R.D.C. (Chipping Norton Borough, Witney U.D.C., Woodstock Borough, Chipping Norton R.D.C., Witney R.D.C., Banbury R.D.C.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WITNEY URBAN DISTRICT Section A STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA Area in Acres ... 1306 Population: Census, 1951 6553 Mean Population, 1953 (R.G.’s estimate) 6574 Number of Inhabited Houses 2099 Rateable Value ... £44691 Sum represented by a Penny Rate ... ... £169 3s Social Conditions and Occupations The main industry of the town is blanket making, an industry which existed in Witney from very early times. The factories are modern, well conducted and the general working conditions are of an excep¬ tionally high standard. There is also a glove factory in the town, two large launderies, a brewery and a mineral water manufacturing works. More recently a machine tools works and a military clothing factory have been established. A considerable number of the inhabitants are employed at an electric clock factory just outside the town and also in connection with the Nuffield Group of Industries at Oxford. Extracts from the Vital Statistics of the Year Birth Rate Birth Rate Total Male Female per 1000 Legitimate ... 116 61 55 18.4 Illegitimate 5 2 3 Total 121 63 58 England and Wales ••• ••• ••• • • • 15.5 Stillbirths—Rate per 1000 births—24. Death Rate Death Rate Total Male Female per 1000 Deaths 71 37 34 10.8 England and Wales ••• ••• ••• •• • • • • 11.4 Causes of Death’. Cancer ... • • • • ••• ••• 11 Pulmonary Tuberculosis 1 Vascular Lesions of Nervous System 9 Coronary Thrombosis ... 8 Nephritis • ••• ••• ••• 1 Infectious Diseases 1 Leukaemia • ••• ••• ••• 1 d