[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Bourne U.D.C.

  • Bourne (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Bourne U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    miles North to South. Whilst practically level from North to South, from East to West it rises from 10 feet above sea level to 90 feet at the extreme Western bouuclary. With the exception of the Township proper the District, which embraces 9,775 acres, is sparsely populated, there are now 1,180 inhabited houses and 1,190 separate families or occupiers. The rateable value is £28,822, and the sum repre- sented by a penny rate is now £72. (c) Social Conditions. The population is entirely dependent upon affriculture or industries subservient to it, and since a^triculture, durinj^ the war and subsequently has been flourishinf^, its social conditions, except for lack of housing accommodation, have been satisfactory. How it has been achieved, or how long it will last is not for me to discuss, but certain it is that the living of the worker has attained, most noticeably, what i.s called a much “higher standard.” (d) Vital Statistics. The Birth-rate for the year 1925 was 20 per 1,000 of the population, and compares with 18‘3 per 1,000, the corresponding figure for England and Wales. Your five year average is 19'5, and the corresponding figure for England and Wales 19'9, so that your District, is for the five years, slightly under the general average. The Death-rate for 1925 was 13 06, and is in excess of the rate for England and Wales which was 12‘2, but the five year average leaves a rate of 1 r9 against a similar average of 12’2 for England and Wales. Of infants dying under one year of age the average per 1,000 born was 79'5 for the year 1925, and this is a higher figure than is usual iu your District, and compares unfavourably with 75, the rate for England and Wales, but in such a small district the death of even one prematurely born infant makes a considerable difference