[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Northumberland County Council.

  • Northumberland (England). County Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Northumberland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i The three lowest were returned from the districts in the undermentioned table :— Urban Districts. Birth Rate. Rural Districts. Birth Rate. Whitley and Monkseaton... 15-74 Belford 16-93 Rotlibury ... 16-38 Rothbury ... 18-18 Hexham 18-47 Hexham ... 18-90 During the year under consideration the birth rate showed an increase in 5 urban and in 5 rural districts; in 16 urban and in 5 rural districts the rate showed a decrease. In 13 urban and 2 rural districts the birth rate exceeded, and in 8 urban and 8 rural districts was below, the rate for England and Wales. The following table shows the birth rates during the last ten years :— Year. Number of births per 1,000 living- during the years 1901-1913. Administrative Brr an Rural England and County. Districts. Districts. Wales. 1904 29-42 30-89 26 21 27-9 1905 30-41 32-89 26-62 27-2 1906 ... 29 09 31 39 25-47 27-0 1907 ... 28-25 3044 24-75 263 1908 2946 31-83 2561 265 1909 ... 28-43 30-06 2571 25 6 1910 ... 26-91 28-96 23-16 25-1 1911 ... 27-48 29-48 2356 24-4 1912 27-05 29-25 2L-09 23-8 1913 26-43 28-28 21-34 23-9 Mean... 28-26 30-24 24-52 257 Deaths. The number of deaths registered during 1913 was 5,175. Of these, 3,774 occurred in urban, and 1,401 in rural districts. Transferable Deaths. During the year the Registrar General notified to each district medical officer of health (through the county medical officer) the number of deaths properly assignable to his district which had occurred in any part of England and Wales outside that district (transferable deaths inwards), and also supplied a list of deaths occurring in each sanitary district in the county, which should be allocated to other localities (transferable deaths outwards). The reports of the district medical officers indicate that the transferable deaths inwards numbered 447 and those transferable outwards 340; the difference of 107 in favour of the inward transfers added to the number of registered deaths (5,175) gives the nett number of deaths belonging to the administrative county. Of the 5,282 nett deaths, 3,936 occurred in the urban and 1,346 in the rural districts. Details of the deaths and death rates in the several districts are given in the table at the end of this report.