[Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Dudley County Borough.

  • Dudley (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1956
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Credit: [Report 1956] / Medical Officer of Health, Dudley County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION A—VITAL STATISTICS Summary Population—Registrar General’s estimate, 1956 64,400 Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1957) £696,834 Estimated Product of Id. Rate (1956/57) £3,070 Livebirths: M. F. Total Legitimate 457 478 935 fRate per 1,000 pop- Illegitimate Stillbirths: 11 9 20 \ ulation Corrected for age and sex 14.08 Legitimate 15 15 30 fRate per 1,000 total Illegitimate — — —-< (live and still) (_ births 30.5 Deaths . 317 277 594 Rate per 1,000 pop- ulation Corrected for age and sex 12.0 Infant Daaths 19 8 27 Rate per 1,000 live births 28.7 Maternal Deaths ... — — — Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births Deaths from all Causes Table I Cause of Death M. 1 Tuberculosis of Respiratory System .... 4 2 Other forms of tuberculosis 1 3 Syphilitic Diseases 1 4 Diphtheria .... — 5 Whooping Cough — 6 Meningococcal Infections 1 7 Acute Poliomyelitis — 8 Measles — 9 Other Infective and Parasitic Diseases .... — 10 Malignant Neoplasm, Stomach 7 11 Malignant Neoplasm, Lungs, Bronchus .... 18 12 Malignant Neoplasm, Breast — 13 Malignant Neoplasm, Uterus — 14 Other Malignant and Lymphatic Neo- plasms 26 15 Leukaemia .... .... .... — 16 Diabetes 1 17 Vascular Lesions of Nervous System .... 30 F. Total 2 6 1 2 — 1 1 3 3 6 13 3 21 13 13 5 5 21 47 1 1 2 3 56 86