[Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Kidwelly Borough.

  • Kidwelly (Wales). Borough Council.
Date:
1948
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Credit: [Report 1948] / Medical Officer of Health, Kidwelly Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ueRAfir ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR SNDEI; DECEI^.ffiER 51st 1948. TO THE KID^JELLY TOVJN COUNCIL. Gentlemen, X I beg to submit my Annual Report for the year ended , . i^ecember 31st, 1948, SECTION A - STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS 0? THE BOROUGH. 1, (a) Your district covers and area of 2844 acres, (b ) Population, 2930 (c) Number of inhabited houses (end of 1946) SlA Number of families or separate occupiers, 9\6 (d) Rateable Value (Reduced) £7582 (e ) Sum represented by a Penny Rato on R.R.V. £28 (f) Unemployment, The average number of unemplo^nnont for the year v;as 155 v/eekly, out of an insurable population of 1200 vhich is equivalent to 12.71/0 EXTRiiCTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEilR . Total, M, P, (g) Live Births (Legitimate (Illegitimate 50 29. 21. Birth rate per 1000 of the estimated population 17,06. (h) Still Births (Legitimate (Illegitimate 1 1 Rate per 1000 total, (live and still births ) 20,00 (i) Deaths, 36 15 21 Death rate per 1000 of the estimated population 12,28 (j ) Deaths from puerperal causes DEATHS . Puerperal sepsis NIL Other puerperal causes NIL TOTAL, NIL (k) Death Rate of Infants under 1 years of age; - NIL All infants per 1,000 live births NIL Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate . live births • .NIL Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births NIL (l) Cancer (all ages),....,.. .,.8 (m ) Deaths from measles,. NIL (n) Deaths from \Vhooping Cough,................. .NIL (o ) Deaths from Diarrhoea (under two years of age) -NIL, SECTION B - GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES . 1, (i ) Medical Officer of Health. D. BEYNON DAVIES, MB,, Ch.B.^;