[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1928
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    SECTION II. VITAL STATISTICS. In the following summary the statistics for 1927 and 1928 refer to the City as extended in May, 1926. As the added population was small, comparison with former years will not be much affected, except with regard to areas and density of population. SUMMARY. 1926 1927 1928 Population, 1,101,622 1,130,675 1,147,108 Acreage, 19,183 29,511 29,511 Persons per acre, 57 38 39 Number of Inhabited Houses, 241,519 247,519 251,307 Deaths—Number registered, 16,156 16,410 16,727 ,, After correction for Transfer: s, 15,628 15,439 15,701 Births—Number registered, 24,857 24,020 24,187 ,, After correction, Death-rate per 1,000 living — 24,345 23,578 23,649 All causes, 14-19 13-66 13-69 Birth-rate per 1,000 living, Deaths under One Year—After 22-10 20-85 20-62 correction, Deaths under One Year — Per 2,532 2,527 2,525 1,000 births, ... 104 107 107 BIRTHS. The births during the year numbered 23,649, compared with 23,578 in 1927. On the estimatedi population and corrected births, the birth-rate is 20-62 per 1,000 persons, compared with 20-85 in 1927 and 22-10 in 1926. I<’or these years the Registrar- General estimates the birth-rate at 22-3, 22-4, and 23-5 respectively. The birth-rate is again the lowest on record, although the reduction 0 1, is small. This reduced fertility is not confined to Glasgow, or even large cities only, but is general throughout the country. When this subject was dealt with in the report for last year a diagram was introduced showing the natural increase in the four large cities in Scotland since the beginning of the present century. The birth-rate in each of the municipal wards of the City is shown in Table V in the Appendix. The highest rate is 286 in Mile-end Ward, folloAved by 282 in both the contiguous Wards of Calton and Dalmarnock. In Kelvinside the birth-rate was as low as 7‘9, followed by 9’8 in Camphill and 10'0 in Park Ward.