[Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Turton Local Board / U.D.C.

  • Turton (England). Local Board.
Date:
1920
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Credit: [Report 1920] / Medical Officer of Health, Turton Local Board / U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR THE YEAR 1920. To the Chairman and Members of Urban District Council of Turton. Gentlemen, I have the honour of submitting my fortieth Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary condition of the Urban District of Turton, together with a summary of sanitary work during the year 1920. The total number of births registered during the year was two hundred and thirteen—males, one hundred and thirteen ; females, one hundred ; equivalent to a rate of 17*1 per thousand upon an estimated population at the middle period of the year of 12,439. As the rate for the year 1919 was I2’i, an increase of 5 0 per thousand is exhibited and an increase of 2*5 upon the mean of the preceding ten years. The birth rate in your district, although relatively higher during the past year, is still lower than the normal and so much as 8’3 per thousand below the rate for the whole of England and Wales. There were nine illegitimate births as against four during the previous year. The total number of deaths recorded during the year was one hundred and seventy-two—males, eighty-two ; females, ninety ; equivalent to a rate of 13*8 per thousand of the population estimated as at the middle period of year of 12,439. The rate for the year is 0^4 per thousand above that for the previous year and n per thousand over the rate for the preceding ten years. In comparison with the whole of England and Wales it is 1'4 per thousand higher. The increased death rate is probably accidental and temporary only, as a review of the causes of death during the year shows that the increase is not due to diseases of a preventable character. There were eighteen deaths of children under one year of age as against ten during the year 1919, the equivalent rates being eighty-four and sixty-six per thousand births, exhibiting an increase during the past year of eighteen per thousand and an increase of four upon the mean of