[Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council.

  • Radnorshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AREA AND POPULATION. Full Particulars were given on pages 6 and 8, Annual Report for 1923, and on pages 5 and 6 Report for 1925. The Census for 1921 was 23,517. The Registrar-General gives the following estimates of the population for 1929: Urban Districts, 5,720; Rural Districts, 15,840; County, 21,570. The population of the 3 Urban Districts is estimated as follows : Knighton, 1,733; Llandrindod Wells, 2,914; Presteigne, 1,083. The population of the 5 Rural Districts is as follows : C'olwvn, 2,055; Knighton, 4,008; New Radnor, 2,500; Painscastle, 2,280; Rhayader, 4,937. NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS. Particulars were given on pages 6—10, Annual Report for 1925. The occupation of the inhabitants was referred to on pages 23—27, Annual Report for 1923, and on pages 9—10, Report for 1925. The number of inhabited houses in 1921 was 4.817, and the number of families or separate occupiers 4,913. RATEABLE VALUE. Particulars of each district were given on page 6, Annual Report for 1925; a penny county rate in 1929 produced £869. BIRTH RATE. The total number of live births registered in the County during 1929, was 349, compared with 339 in 1928, the rate was 16.2 per 1,000 of the population, compared with 15.5 in 1928, and i8.9 for the 5 years 1921-25. There were 30S legitimate births fmale 193, female 156), and 41 illegitimate births (male 26 female 15).