[Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Pudsey Borough.

  • Pudsey (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1958
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Credit: [Report 1958] / Medical Officer of Health, Pudsey Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL AND VITAL STATISTICS GENERAL STATISTICS Area of the Borough (acres) .. 5,323 Population (Registrar General’s mid-year estimate) 32,490 Number of inhabited houses. (approx.) 12,000 Rateable value of the Borough. £334,831 Income of a penny rate. £1,285 The Borough is divided into 7 wards. VITAL STATISTICS There were 598 live births (322 males and 276 females) to mothers normally resident in the Borough during the year, an increase of nearly 20 per cent, on last year when there were 500. One interesting and unusual point is the high proportion of boy children; 582 were legitimate and 16 illegitimate, equivalent to an illegitimate birth rate of 2.68 per cent. In addition there wrere 10 stillbirths, all of which were legiti¬ mate compared with nine last year. The large rise in births has raised the birth rate from 15.6 to 18.4 per thousand and when adjusted for comparison with other parts of the country it rises still further to 18.6 while that for the whole country only rose from 16.1 to 16.4. The stillbirth rate was 16.45 per 1,000 total (live and still) births which was lower than last year, and well below the national figure of 21.6 per 1,000 births. 396 residents (201 males and 195 females) died during the year, a rise of five as compared with last year, but the increased population has resulted in no change in the death rate, which remains at 12.2 per thousand. This is above the national rate of 11.7 and the situation is even less favourable when the rate is adjusted for comparative purposes when it rises to 13.3. This last figure is the same as that for all the urban areas of the West Riding. Analysis of the deaths shows that two-thirds of the men and three-quarters of the women died after reaching the age of 65 years, the average ages at death of the two sexes being 654 and 70 years respectively. Heart diseases accounted for three- eighths of all deaths, cancers, cerebral haemorrhage and strokes, were equally the next most important causes with respiratorv di seases (pneumonia and bronchitis) close behind. Fourteen infants (9 males and 5 females) died before reach¬ ing their first birthday. 7 of these during the first week of their life giving an infantile mortality rate of 23.4 per 1000 live births as compared with a rate for England and Wales of 22.5, and a perinatal mortality of 28.0 per 1,000 total births which was below last year, and compares very favourably with the rate for the West Riding of 36.8. Once again there were no maternal deaths associated with pregnancy and childbirth.