[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Milnrow U.D.C.

Milnrow (England). Urban District Council.

Date:: 1948

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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Milnrow U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[‘TTjNRQW URBiiN DISTRICT COUNCIL l Tvtutta.t . n-ajQRT OF THL MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH _ FOR THE. YLaR 1948. TO THL HEALTH COMMITT^m OF THL URBAN DISTRICT OF MlmNROT* Gentleman , I have tha honour of presenting niy twentieth annual RaDort of the Health of the Urban District of Milnrow, and shall commence by placing before you the General Statistics from which this report is formed* estimated population of 194-8 The census of 193^- and the The of 5A94 acres* inhabitated houses to be 2,574Jfi or separate occupiers 2,575* total population as 8,623. is gav e 84l8 with an acreage the number of * number of families census of 193^ gave the The rateable! value of the District is £5^5^3 and the sum represented by the Penny Rate £197* The population is industrial and is occupied mainly with cotton spinning, the engineering trade and the wool trade, nonQ of which has any peculiar influence on the public health. VITAL STATISTICS Total Births in 19^-8 ^5 Deaths in 1948 -^7 Deaths in infants under one year 9 Still Births 5 Male Female Rates per 1.000 of population 1948 19-7 Mean of (Five Years) (1943.1947) Increase or decrees in 1948 on 5 years average 1943-1947 Previous year difference Birth Crude Rate Death Ra.te Phthisis Cancer Rato of Death Death Deaths Rate Rate under 1 year to 1000 Maternal Mortality Rate per 1000 Live and Still Births Births 17.2 13*8 20.0 13*5 17.4 13*5 -0.2 +0.3 -2*8 +0.3 Nil 1.54 0.24 2.29 0.2 7 2.IS -0.27 -0.64 -0.24 -0.75 62 6.66 30 Nil 46 1.49 +16 + 5.17 + 32 +6.66