[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicestershire / County of Leicester County Council.

  • Leicestershire (England). County Council.
Date:
1905
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Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Leicestershire / County of Leicester County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Statistics, Births. Birth rate, 26.6. houses, and estimated that in the Urban Districts there were 234 overcrowded houses containing 1,365 persons, and in the Rural Districts 522 overcrowded houses containing 4,331 persons. Roughly speaking, therefore, nearly 24 per cent, of the whole population of the County is living in an overcrowded state. The details of the number of persons living in tenements of less than 5 rooms are given in Tables 7 and 8 at the end of the report. Statistics. —Still another new table of statistics is required by the Local Government Board. This deals with the Infant Mor¬ tality during the year under review, and contains the number of deaths, the stated cause of deaths, and the ages in weeks and months under one year of age. The totals of the Urban Districts and of the Rural Districts, together with those for the whole County, are given in Table 5. This new Table entails a large amount of extra work, but the information which it contains will no doubt in a few years time be very valuable. The usual methods have been employed to obtain as accurately as possible the number of deaths properly belonging to each district, but not necessarily occurring in the district. There may be, how¬ ever, in these Returns, some slight inaccuracies. Every effort has also been made to get all the other statistics in the various Tables as correct as possible. All the vital statistics are calculated per 1,000 persons estimated to be living at the middle of the year 1905, except the Infant Mor¬ tality, which is estimated on the number of children who died under one year per 1,000 registered births. As standards of comparison, the vital statistics are given for the whole of England and Wales, and less 217 large towns, taken from the Registrar General’s Returns; it is with the latter that those of the County should be compared. Births. —The estimated Birth rate shews a considerable decrease on that for last year, and is the lowest on record; it is, moreover, 2'3 per thousand below the previous decennial average. In one district in the County—the Belvoir Rural—the Birth rate and the Death rate are approximately the same figure, being respectively 14*1 and 12*3. The total births registered in the County was 6,307, or 128 below