[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GENERAL AND VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1952. General: Area: 4,810 Acres. Number of Inhabited Dwellings (end of financial year 31.3.53, according to Rate Book): 8,219. Rateable Value (31.3.53): £260,415. Sum represented by penny rate: £1,029 9s. lid. Registrar General’s estimate of mid-year population, 1952: 29,600. The population figure which is to be used for the whole year is 29,450, this being a figure reconstructed by the Registrar General from the situation before and after the boundary extension and taking cognizance of other population movements. Vital: BIRTHS:— Male Female Total Live Births:—Within Marriage 220 208 428 Outside Marriage 13 6 19 Total Live Births 233 214 447 Stillbirths:— Within Marriage 3 6 9 Outside Marriage — — — Total Stillbirths DEATHS:— 3 6 9 All Deaths Deaths associated with Pregnancy, 166 163 329 Childbirth or Abortion — 2 2 Deaths of Infants under 1 year (All births within marriage). 10 4 14 The following rates are calculated from these figures and are corrected and compared with corresponding figures for elsewhere for 1952. Comparative Statistical Rates for 1952: Canterbury Crude Live Births per 1,00 Population ... 15.18 Corrected by Com- parability Factor— Eng. & Wales 160 Towns (popn. 25,000 to 50,000,1951 census) (1.07) Stillbirths per 1,000 16.24 15.3 15.5 Population Calculated per 1,000 0.30 0.35 0.36 Live and Stillbirths Crude Death Rate (all causes) per 1,000 Population 19.7 11.16 22.6 23.0