[Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Hawarden R.D.C.

  • Hawarden (Wales). Rural District Council.
Date:
1950
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Credit: [Report 1950] / Medical Officer of Health, Hawarden R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 G-entlemen, I have the honour to present to you my Annual Report on the health of the Hawarden Rural District for the year 1950. Your attention is called to the following Important changes in format of ray Report as compared with Annual Reports prior to 1950* Firstly, the population figure given is the home population (l*e, it includes members of the Armed Forces stationed in this area) and the birth and death rates arc based bn this population, 1?he figure for deaths include those members of the Armed Forces who were stationed in the area. In addition an area comparability factor for births and deaths, allowing for age and sex distribution of the population in different areas, is given and is used for comparing birth rates and death rates with those in other areas. Secondly, deaths are classified under tlie 36 head- ings based on the abbreviated list of the Int3rnational Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, 1948* The estimated Mid-year homo population is 34#950* The total number of births was 622. an Increase of 36 on the 1949 figure of 586. The.birth rate is I7.8 per 1,000 of the home population conpared with a rate for England and Wales of I5.8 per 1,000* For births the comparability factor is 0*97 which reduces the birth rate to 17*2 for conparison with the birth rates of other areas. The total deaths have risen from 33I in 1949 to 360 in 1950, so that there were 29 more deaths in I950 than in 1949* The death rate per 1,000* of the home population is I0.3 as compared with a death rate of 11*6 for England and Wales. After application of the comparability factor for deaths of I.I5 the death rate is 11.8 for comparison of death rates in other areas. The Infantile Mortality rate has risen from 30.0 per 1,000 live births in 1949 32.1 per 1,000 live births in 1950* A table analysing the causes of Infantile deaths is embodied in the Report, The principle cause of death.was disease of the heart and circulatory system, which accounted for 186 of the 36O deaths during the year, so that of all deaths occurred in this group of diseases (17-21 inclusive in the Table - Causes of Deaths), Cancer was responsible for 78 deaths which is 21*6'/^ of all deaths, so that diseases of the circulatory system Including heart disease and cancer 'accounted for 83*2fa of all deaths. Those diseases were more common in the older age groups and the high proportion of deaths from these causes can be correlated with the fact that 54* of all deaths occurred in persons over JO years of age, and 85*2^'^ of all deaths occurred in persons over the ago of 45* In fact of the 186 deaths due to diseases of the heart and circulatory system only 4 occurred in persons under 45 years, and of the Jd deaths due to cancer 4 occurred in persons under 45 years of ago*