[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough.

  • Bournemouth (England). County Borough Council. nb2004301338.
Date:
1926
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Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Bournemouth County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    being therefore, 1,110, making a birth rate of 12.3! on the Registrar-General’s estimate of the po]jiila- tioii. The following table shows the birth rates for the past ten years, calculated on the Registrar- General’s estimate of the population. It will be noted that this is now taken as the basis of calcula- tion whereas the birth rates in former reports were calculated on the estimate of the population based on the Census figures. 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 12 4 12 4 11-8 16-3 15 4 13 8 13 0 131 13'4 12 3 Of the 1,163 births that actually occurred in the County Borough 1,148 were notified. Of these noti- fications 579 were made by doctors, 564 by mid- wives and 5 b}^ other persons. (b) Infantile Mortality. vSeventy-three infants died in Bournemouth during their first year of life. Of these deaths 11 were transferred to other dis- tricts. Two infant deaths occurring in other areas were transferred to Bournemouth, the number of infant deaths referred by the Registrar-General to Bournemouth being therefore 64, making an Infantile Mortality of 57.65. Of the 64 infant deaths, 12 were certified as due to premature birth and 13 to congential malforma- tions. No child under twelve months died from any notifiable infectious disease. The following table gives the rate of Infantile Mortality for the past 10 years :— 1217 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1926 1926 83-7 57-2 87 1 45 3 75-1 56 6 5''-8 44-9 62-7 57 6