[Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Pudsey Borough.

  • Pudsey (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1970
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Credit: [Report 1970] / Medical Officer of Health, Pudsey Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL AND VITAL STATISTICS Population (Registrar General’s Estimate for mid 1970) Area of the Borough in acres y/U' Rateable value Income of a penny rate 37,740 5,323 £1,194,189 £4,800 irLufresiinfin^he^o 3°\®irls) -live to with 620 live births in I969 Thi«U9 uri”? the year, compared 15.6 per thousand of the population T 3 Mrth rate of other areas, and with the country as a whole^13011 Tth the rates in this rate by a factor which allows ent 1 ’ ls made by multifplying Of the population, and in our cas^ fh V9® and Sex comP°sition as against a natiinal ra^e o? 160 utftl ^ to 14’8 illegitimate, 5.4% 0f the total ki‘,u 32 °f these children were 8% of the bix’ths were “ a uhola There were 11 stil ihir+v,e of these were children born to mothe^w^r^'4 in 1969* A11 complications of pregnancy or labour. h in h°,ital because of After a year in which the deaths of inf-n- ^ . year were remarkably low, we have unfo. tf„P^s. theib first age group during 1970 (9 boys and 6 mrlsl L h d 15 deaths in this rate of 26 per thousand compared with 18 dm rh*9 “ infantile mortality Wales as a whole. n Qf ?hese chUdreJ dLd^ in E'‘tA*nd -»d of birth or from congenital abnormalities present^bi^V fe“ ‘>mi congenital conditions contributed to the deaths of two oS^116 giving a death rate”of 1U5 pm thou, and 41durin3 the V—r rate rises when adjusted for comparative purposes^ laT- • ThiS national rate of 11.7. as in nmn'mu. P P , t0 12,3 a9ainst a the major cause of death being responsible^ 144^haVe been m 1969. Cerebrovascular disease fetrnv \ 44’ almost tbe same as cancer 80. 24 of these cancer dLih ^ CaUSed 91 deaths and This is an extremely rare disease in ,in„Wer\*er' Wh° dled 0f lung ’'ancer. feeling that most ol «£ «e“e“„~rS' * °ne cannot >*lP abortion o^chjdbirtt. ’aternal de3thS aSSOciatad with pregnancy,