[Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Turton Local Board / U.D.C.

  • Turton (England). Local Board.
Date:
1966
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Credit: [Report 1966] / Medical Officer of Health, Turton Local Board / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS The District covers an area of 17,335 acres. The last Registrar General’s estimate of the resident population was 17,400. The number of inhabited houses at the end of 1966 was 6,471. The rateable value was £549,079 at 31st March, 1966 and a penny rate at this time yielded £2,200. The social conditions, mainly artisan classes, although new buildings in the area for private ownership are gradually changing parts of the district. Chief industries are cotton spinning, dyeing, light engineering, stone quarries, the manufacture of paper and farming. EMPLOYMENT The chief employment is in Textile Manufacture, Bleachworks, Dyeworks and Stone Quarries, Saw Mills, Manufacture of Paper and Farming. Men employed at the Stone Quarries are subject to Silicosis. They undergo a medical examination periodically by Government Inspectors. VITAL STATISTICS LIVE BIRTHS Legitimate Illegitimate Total Stillbirths . . Deaths Total M. F. 366 179 187 Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population, mid-1966:— 11 377 7 186 4 191 Crude .i Adjusted. 21.7 19.3 1 0 1 Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births . 2.6 176 85 91 Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated civilian population:— Crude . Adjusted .. 10.1 11.2 Deaths from puerperal causes:— Puerperal and Post-abortive Sepsis Other Maternal causes . . Total Maternity Mortality Deaths of Infants under one year of age, 1 M. 1 F. Death rate of Infants under one year of age:— All infants per 1,000 live births. Death Rate per 1,000 Total Deaths (live avd still) Births Nil Nil Nii Nil Nil Nil Total 2 .. .. 5.3 Neo-Mortality:— Deaths of infants under 4 weeks of age .. .. .. . 2 Mortality rate per 1,000 live births. 5.3 Perinatal mortality rate. 7-9 (Still births and infant deaths at 1 week per 1,000 births).