[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County.

  • Canterbury (England). City & County Council.
Date:
1955
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Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Canterbury Borough / City & County. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNUAL REPORT, 1955 Social Circumstances. I here has been iio change in the social circumstances of the locality which can be recognised as having an eftect on the health of the community. A high level of employment is maintained. Ihe head of the Canterbury Employment Office has kindly pro- vided the following ligui'es for unemployment in Canterbury and the surrounding rural area for 1955. i\Iid 1955 End of 1955 Men 71 (1954^8) Men 116 (1954—188) Women 81 (1954—82) Women 62 (1954— 68) These figures have shown a steady improvement over several years. The growth of Canterbury as a .shopping centre has given the community the benefit of keener trading, and the local Press gi\es marketing news which is helping the housewives to recover the shopping skill which war-time rationing hindered. The struggle between the wages of full employment and the using cost of living must be met by keener .shopping and a good understanding of food values if the present nutritional standard of tlie community is to be maintained. In a caucus race of wages and prices nobody wins. The social trends which may follow the Council’s introduction of a .scheme of differential rents in Council houses will be of par- ticular interest. GENERAL AND VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1955 General. Area : 4,810 Acres. Number of Inhabited Dwellings (end of financial year 81.8.56 according to Rate Book) ; 8,957. Rateable Value (81.8.56) : f292,H4i. From 1.4.56 : 4:509,471 subject to appeals. Sum represented by penny rate : 41,187. 19s. lOd. Registrar fleneral’s estimate of mid-year population, 1955 : BIRTHS : — Male h'emale Total Dive Births : Within Marriage ... 218 199 412 Outside Marriage ... 8 8 16 Total Dive Births ... 221 207 428 .Stillbirtlis : Within Marriage 4 ») > > 7 Outside Marriage ... — __ Total Stillbirths 4 7 DEATHS : — All Deaths 141 157 298 Deaths associated with Pregnanev, Childbirth or Abortion ... 1 1 Deaths of Infants under 1 vear ... 1 6 (All births within marriage, and all were neonatal deaths within the first month of life).