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

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

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    The Town is partly residential and partly industrial, the industrial portions being principally on the North and North East sides. The South side is wholly residential. The principal industries are Iron Works, Spades and Shovels ; Chains, Vices, Anvils, Frost Cogs, Fire Bricks, Gas Retorts, Galvanized, Enam¬ elled and Japanned Buckets, Baths and General Hollow-ware ; Horse Shoes ; Skin Rugs, Chamois Leather Gloves ; Brushes and Brooms ; Earthenware Sinks ; Glazed Bricks ; Glass Works Pots. The Borough owns the Gasworks, which are situated in the Urban District of Amblecote, also, in conjunction with the Urban District of Amblecote, are owners of the Water undertaking. No particular diseases are attributable to the occupations carried on in the District. Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year. BIRTHS. Live Births. M. Legitimate . . 237 Illegitimate . 8 F. 244 5 Total. 481 13 245 249 494 Birth Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population Birth Rate for England and Wales 13-99 15.0 Still Births. M. Legitimate . . . it . Illegitimate . . — . F. 2 Total. 13 11 2 13 Rate per 1,000 total (Live and Still) Births . 25.64 DEATHS. Males Females 206 208 Total * 414 Crude Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated population resident n.83 For the purpose of comparison of the Death Rate with the Rates of other Districts, and with that of England and Wales as a whole, regard must be had to the constitution of the population in the matter of pro¬ portion of the sexes and age group components. The Registrar-General