[Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Wednesbury Borough.

  • Wednesbury (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1954
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Credit: [Report 1954] / Medical Officer of Health, Wednesbury Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Deaths of Infants under one year of age. Male. Female. Total. All Infants 7 5 12 Legitimate Infants 7 5 12 Illegitimate Infants — . . — . . — Rate per 1,000 Live Births . . . # , . . . 22.4 Rate per 1,000 Legitimate Live Births • • .. 23.1 Rate per 1,000 Illegitimate Live Births • • Nil Deaths. Number. Rate per 1,000 Population. From Cancer (all ages) • • 61 1.7 From Measles (all ages) • • — — From Whooping Cough (all ages) • • 1 0.02 From Diarrhoea (under two years) • • — — Vital Statistics—1954. Live Still Death Death Rate Birth Birth Rate. Infants under Rate. Rate. one year. Borough of Wednes- bury .. . . 15.4 25.5 . 9.2 . . 22.4 England and Wales (Provisional) . . 15.2 23.4 . . 11.3 . . 25.5 The respective rates for the Borough in 1953 were 17.3, 30.7, 8.4 and 25.0. Social Conditions, The chief industries are iron and steel manufacture, tube manu¬ facture, engineering, hot drop stamping, constructional steelwork, railway carriage building, edge tool manufacture, electrical engineering, iron foundering and kindred trades. Mr. D. Ward, Manager of the Wednesbury Employment Exchange has given me the following particulars :— Numbers employed in the Principal Industries of the Town :— Metal Manufacture including Iron Males. and Females. T otal. Steel Rolling and Casting .. 3196 288 3484 Iron Foundries 601 237 838 Iron and Steel 1'ubes 739 277 1016 Non-ferrous Metals 275 57 332 Engineering. . . . . . 795 277 1072