[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council.

  • Monmouthshire County Council
Date:
1940
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Credit: [Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Monmouthshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •O’ ivo O O'*1 . DEATHS., - The total numb or of deaths registered in the Administrs Count” as shown by the Registrar-General'rs table, was’4,263,- as-• pared with 3,921 in 1939, 3,734 in 1938, 3944, in 1937, and 3,987 in IS36. Deaths of persons temporarily residing in tho County on account of the. war are not transferable to areas of usual residence. Tho general death’rate calculated Upon the spooially computed esl of. population submitted by tho•Registrar-General 316,030, works out j 13*4 per 1,000 living. In 1939 tho rate was 12.3, in1938 tho rate vyas 12.1, in 1937, 12.6, in 1936 12.2. For the Urban Districts the ; for 1946 was i3.6: and for tho Rural Districts 12.4. The County death rato of 13.4 per 1,000 of population shows^ increase on 1939, when tho rato was 12.8, and is lowor than the £ - England and Walos, 14.3. . iV •' * STILLBIRTHS. - Tho numbor of stillbirths recorded_during the yoa: was 285, compared with 236 in 1939 and 283 in 1938. Tho rate. per. 1, of population'for 1940 is .90, in 1939 it was .85 and in 1937, .92. . Tho ra.to. continues, to compare unfavourably with. that for England and Wales, which for 1939 was .59. \ M WOMEN' DYING- IN» -OR TU -CONSEQUENCE OF CHILDBIRTH. - Tho number_ . of dea^Hs “registorc‘d''.. during tho year from aceidontsand ^diseases of pronancy and parturition was 16, 4 from puerperal sepsis and 12 ..res other causes associated with childbirth. This ls‘oqua.1 bo a- rate of nor 1,000 live births. This rate again shows a reduction on tho 193 figu.ro which was 3.06 por 1,000 livo births*. Tno 1940 rato- is 1qv/o than any rato previously returned for the County but i3 sti 13- higher than that for'Engl and and Wales- 2*16. • - INFANT MORTALITY. - Tho total number of .deaths ...under one yoar o ago Throughout tho A dministrativo County was 366, 336 in tho Urban Districts and ,30 in tho Rural Districts. Tho rato por 1,000 births was 69.9 an increase of 8.7 upon tho figures for 1939 which was 61.2. In the Urban Districts the rate was 64.1 per 1,000 births, and i tbe Rural Districts 52.2 por 1,000 births. *'* ' ' *' In 39S 'the Infantile Mortality'' rat'd 'was 61.2 in 193855.8. , ‘in 1937, 63.9, in 1936, '61.7.U , pH' * ” < ■ . ; Tho rato for England and Wales was 55.0. ■ . ms The svoroge infantilo mortality rata for tho 25 years,.1891, - 191 <a 137.4, The average rato for tho 24 yoar3 1916':7 19^9 was,, a**o. The number of deaths of illegitimate children-.under one yoar: of ms 18, or 3.3. por 1,000 of all births, and 106.5. por 1,000 of Lllegitiinato •births , vLast-yoar the number of deaths was 7 or 1.1 pc L,000 of all-births,,and 43.7. , por 1,000 of illegitimate births. Tho moasuros adopted by the County Council for tho roduction of Cnfantile Mortality aro dealt with in tho Report upon Maternity c,n Jhild' Wo If are - for tho yoar 1940.
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