[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1919
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Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART I. GENERAL STATISTICS. Population.—For the purpose of making the calculations in connection with the vital statistics of the City, two estimates of population have been supplied by the Registrar-General, one for determining the death-rate, namely 430,834, and the other for determining the birth-rate, 448,801. The death-rate population excludes all non-civilian males whether serving at home or abroad. The birth-rate population on the other hand includes all the elements of the population contributing to the birth and marriage rates. It consists therefore of the death-rate or civilian population plus all non-civilians enlisted from this country, whether serving at home or overseas. In the absence of definite figures of population which cannot be available until after the census of 1921, the Registrar-General has had recourse to the rationing returns placed at his disposal by the Ministry of Food and has based his estimates on information contained in these returns. In Leeds it has been the custom in past years to use only one estimate of population and that the first or death-rate estimate for calculating both the birth and death-rates. The population used throughout this report, except for marriages, is therefore 430,834. In estimating the marriage rate the population on which the calculations is based is that of the combined registration districts of the City of Leeds, together with Templenewsam and Rothwell, Churwell and Gilder- some. Marriages.—The total number of marriages registered in the Leeds, Hunslet, Holbeck and Bramley registration districts* during 1919, was 5,083, which gives a marriage-rate of 21'2 as compared with 15-5 for 1918, the highest rate ever recorded not excluding the year 1915 which was looked upon as a phenomenal one when the rate rose to 20-2. The marriage-rate for England and Wales shows a similar increase being 19-7 for 1919 as compared with 15-3 for 1918 and 19-4 for 1915. * Registration districts are based on the areas of Poor Law Unions, of which there are four in Leeds, but the boundaries of the Unions do not coincide with those of the City. The whole of the Leeds Union is within the City, but only parts of the Hunslet, Holbeck and Bramley Unions. The Hunslet Union includes Templenewsam and Rothwell, Holbeck includes Churwell, and Bramley Union includes Gildersome.