[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Dudley County Borough.

  • Dudley (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1918
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Credit: [Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Dudley County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In accordance with the instructions of the Local Government Board only urgent and necessary matters are dealt with in the Report, but the forms which were officially ordered to be kept in pre-war days, have again been utilized for the returns since, although they are not asked for by the Board, they constitute a continuous series in definite form of our v ital statistics. The Birth Rates for Dudley in recent years haye been :— Year Total Births Birth Rate per i,ooo 1893 1,698 37.10 1894 1,685 36.03 1895 1,739 38 1890 1,739 38 1897 1,735 36.01 1898 1,739 35.72 1899 1,800 36.35 1900 1,695 32.85 1901 1,741 35.73 1902 1,752 35.73 1903 1,691 33.93 1904 1,779 • 35.18 1905 l,e593 30.99 1908 1,552 29.73 1907 1,637 31.34 1908 1,610 30.26 1909 1,554 28.61 1910 1,476 27.17 1911 1,414 27.50 1912 1,432 27.81 1013 1,470 28.28 1914 1,502 28.56 1915 1,460 27.69 1916 1,297 24.67 1917 1,394 25.81 1918 1,355 25.09