[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Godalming Borough.

  • Godalming (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1939
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Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Godalming Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1939. Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area. Area (acres), 2,393. Papulation (Registrar General’s estimate, mid-year 1939): 13,120 (for Birth-rate calculations), 13,740 (for Death- rate). Comparable factor, 0.88. In place of giving an adjusted population for statis- tical purposes this year the Registrar General has supplied a factor by which the crude death rate must be multiplied to bring it into consonance with the death-rate of other towns. This factor is used in this connection in the table. Number of inhabited houses (1st April, 1939), according to the rate books : 3,869. Rateable Value (1st April, 1939) : £120,078. Sum represented by a penny rate : £469 5s. 7d. Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year. Live Births— Total. M. F. ' 'Birth Rate per 1,000 Total ... 168 91 77 of the estimated Legitimate ... 160 90 70 ' resident popula- Illegitimate 8 1 7 tion, 12.80. Rate per 1,000 total Still Births ... 5 2 a\ (live and still) L births, 28.9. Still-birth Rate per 1,000 population, 0.38. r Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated Deaths ... 159 74 85 - resident popula- tion, 10.18. (Com- parability factor, 1 0.88.)