[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Irlam U.D.C.

  • Irlam (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Irlam U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BIRTHS. Boys 125 Girls 12!). Total 254. The total number of births belonging to the district after the necessary adjustments for inward and outward transfers was 254. This gave a birth rate of IS.2 per 1000 of the population, as against 21.7 for the previous year. The birth-rate per 1,000 of the population for the whole of England and Wales for 1045 was 16.1. INFANT MORTALITY. There were ten deaths of children under one year of age during 1945 (males 4, females 6). The infantile death-rate per 1,000 live births for England and Wales was 46. The following table gives the infant mortality rate for this district during the past five years : — 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 70 34 29 23 39 DEATHS. Males 80 : Females 51 ; Total 131. The number of deaths registered in the district was 99 but deducting 3 deaths of persons not usually resident in this district and adding 35 deaths of residents which occurred in other districts the corrected number was 131. This gave a death-rate of 9.4 per 1,000 of the population, compared w-ith 9.0 in 1944. The death-rate for the whole of England and Wales was 11.4 per 1,000 of the total population.