[Report 1968] / Medical Officer of Health, Dalton-in-Furness U.D.C.

  • Dalton-in-Furness (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1968
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    ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MFDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR This YEAR 1968 Divisional Health Office, Brogden Street, Ulverston, To the Chairman and Henhers of the Daltcn-in-Fnrness Urban District Council, III'. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present to you the Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year I968. GEiMERAL STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS Area i_n Acres 8,022 Population - Census, 196I 10,316 - Registrar General's Estimate of home population, mid I968 10,990 Number of inhabited dwellings 4j039 Rateable Value £279,402 Amount produced by a Penny Rate £1,112 The Urban District of Dalton-in-Furness is situated in the North Western part of the County of Lancashire adjoining the County Borough of Barrow-in- Furness and the North Lonsdale Rural District. Height above Ordnance Datum varies between 85O feet in the north-east to sea level in the west. There ere outcrops of limestone in various parts of the District and in the past there has been extensive mining for iron ore which has left the surface considerably scarred and some of the lov/ lying areas flooded with v/ater. The ch-ief industries are viscose manufacturing, shoe-making, brickv/orks, clothJng manufacture and agriculture, but a large proportion of the male working population is em.ployed in the shipyards and engineering ¥/orks at Barrow-in-Furness, VITAL STATISTICS The principal vital statistics for the year 1968 and for the preceding five years are given on page two. 215 live births were registered, 127 being males and 88 females. 10 male and 4 female were illegitimate. Approximately 74^ of the deaths were in persons of 65 years of age and crrer arji the principal causes of death were: - Heart disease 52, Malignant groTTths 19, and Vascular Lesions of the nervous system 23. Of the 52 deaths from Heart disease, 37 were due to Coronary Artery Disease. The adj'usted live birch rate of 20, 6 per 1 ,000 and the adjusted death rate of 13.2 per 1,000 can be compared with the corresponding rates for England arJ. 77ales of 16,9 per 1,000 and 11.9 per 1,000 respectively. -1-