[Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Coventry County & City.

  • Coventry (England). County and City Council.
Date:
1918
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Credit: [Report 1918] / Medical Officer of Health, Coventry County & City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Infantile Heath Rate, 92.5 per 1,000 births. Average for previous lo years, 89.0. Zymotic Death Rate, 0.42. Average for previous 10 years, 1.13. Respiratory Death Rate (excluding Phthisis), 2.55. Phthisis Death Rate, 1.28. Average for previous 10 years, 1.11. Death Rate from other forms of Tuberculosis, .30. Physical Features of the City and District. See Annual Report for 1910. Population. The estimation of the civil population under existing circum- ^ stances is a matter of considerable uncertainty. Having regard to various local considerations, which need not here be detailed, this was taken to approximate to 133,000. The result obtained by the “ ration books ” at the end of the year showed that this estimate was not far wrong, and probably underestimated the population. (The figure adopted by the Registrar-General for the estima- tion of the local death rate was 135,218, and that for the birth rate I5D507-) Vital Statistics of the Wards. The following table shows the estimated populations of the several wards, and the particulars on which these estimates are based, viz., the newly-completed houses at the middle of the year, the houses demolished, and vacant houses;' it also g-ives the birth and death rates for the several wards, based on these estimates, and also the infantile mortality rates, which being based on the comparison of the infantile deaths to the actual number of births which occurred, are not based on estimates.