[Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Arundel Borough.

  • Arundel (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1938
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Credit: [Report 1938] / Medical Officer of Health, Arundel Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Borough of Arundel 10, Bulkington Avenue, Worthing. April, 1939. Gentlemen, I beg to submit to you my Annual Report for the year 1938, which has been compiled in accordance with the requirements of Circular 1728, issued by the Ministry of Health on the 25th October, 1938. The rates for 1938 as compared with the average rates for the past six years are as follows :— Average 1932-37. 1938. Birth Rate per 1,000 population 12.0 13.9 Death Rate per 1,000 population 13.2 14.8 Corrected Death Rate per 1,000 population — 10.8 Infantile Mortality Rate per 1,000 Births 29 Nil These rates have been calculated on the estimated resident population supplied to me by the Registrar-General, for the mid- year 1938. The Corrected Death Rate (10.8) is obtained by multiplying the uncorrected rate by the factor of correction for Arundel, viz., 0.73. The corrected death rate represents what the death rate for Arundel would be if the population contained proportionately the same number of males and females in each of the age groups as enumeration in 1931 census revealed in England and Wales as a whole. The factor of correction being less than 1, indicates that the population of Arundel consists of a larger proportion of people at the ages at which death is more likely to occur than does the population of England and Wales as a whole.