[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Crewe Borough.

  • Crewe (Crewe and Nantwich, England). Borough Council.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Crewe Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Births. The total number of births registered within the Borough during 1918 was 1,009, of which number 529 were males and 480 females. To these figures have to be added, births transferred by the Registrar C4eneral to the permanent home addresses of the parents, although the children were born outside the Borough. The corrected numbers are : Males, 530. Females, 481. Total births, 1,011. Of the births registered, 42 or 4T per cent, were illegitimate, as compared with 50 or 4-8 per cent, in 1912. The birth-rate was 22T per 1,000 of the population, 0-4 per 1,000 lower than in 1912. In England and Wales in 1913, the birth-rate was 23'9 per 1,000. The accompanying chart I shows the birth-rate in Crewe, and in England and Wales from 1893 to 1913. During the first 16 years of this period, it will lie noted that the birth-rate in Crewe was considerably in excess of that for England and Wales, in 1909 it was -4 lower, and in 1910 the two rates were equal. The decrease in the birth-rate of the Borough carried it below the rate for England and Wales for the first time in 1909, in 1910 the rates were equal and since then the local rate has further decreased, until in 1913 it was T8 lower than the other. On another page it will be found that the still births recorded, in the town numbered 69 or a rate of T5 per 1,000 of the population With a declining birth-rate the question may reasonably be asked how many of the still-births might have been prevented and living children brought into the world. The natural increase of the population, or the number by which the births exceed the deaths, shows an increase from last year. Year. Births. Deaths. Natural increase. Average 1893-1901 1,293 644 549 1902-1911 1,257 600 657 1912 1,021 574 447 1913 1,011 530 481