[Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council.

  • West Riding of Yorkshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1945] / Medical Officer of Health, West Riding of Yorkshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    >>• CCUITTT COu:;CIL 01' TIS '7S3T HIDING ON TONINJZrS. ANIGIAL RNNCNT ON DEPUTY COUITTY lEDICAL ONFICSH NON TIIv YPAH 1945. j-i NTHODUCTION. In conj?03?:.iit7 \7itla liinistr7 of Health Circular OS/lG dated tl-G llth Nehruarp, 194G, this Deport is apain reduced in size and is stencilled ov.dnp to continued shortages of paper and printinp facilities. Nevertheless, everp effort has heen j.iade to retain the essential statistical data in the Report and particularly in Schedules 1 to V. Reference is also raade to certain outstanding puhlic health natters uTiich occurred during the year, e.,;,. the estahlishnent of the County -Yloulance Schene. Births, YITAL STATISTICS. :U Durinp the yca.r 1945 the live births nunbered E5,G4( (15,4-4-4 .males, 12,4-02 fe.nales), the birth rate per 1,000 of the estinated population beinp 17.9 for the v/hole of the Adninistrative County Gonpared v/ith 20.2 for the year 1944* The rate for 1945 is alnost identical with that of 17,8 for 1943 and is the highest rate since 192G v/ith the erception of tiiat for 1947, The birth rate for the year 1945 for tlie Urban Districts of the County \m3 17.5, and for the Rural Districts 19,4. Deaths . The nett deaths for nunbered 17,850, tlie nett yeotr 12.3 ner 1,000 of the for-1944 and 12.7 for 1943 t e n -yearly periods 19 3-4 -4- 3 the Adninistrative County durinv; death rate from all causes being estinated population conpared 1 < i A ‘u f 01 ' that 12.1 -Lj lC. corresuondinh rate for the two and 19 T7 FT -00 v/anS IQ O The proportion of deaths fron all causes in 1945 for'the belov/’- fron each cause j^er 1,000 deaths -Adninistrative County, is shown Causes of Death. Pro'oortion of ITQ* of deaths per iOOO Deaths. all causes. Scarlet Never, '.dhooping Cough, ) Diphtheria, Neasles ) IO9 Tuberculosis (all forns) ‘ 684 Influenza 1 Id- Bronchitis , Pneunonia and other Rc-suiratory Diseases 1973 Cancer 2603 Cerebral Haenorrhage, Axpopleny, etc • 2057 Heart and Circulatory Diseases 5434 Digcstive Dises.ses 628 P r e t ur e b i r t h, C on gen i t a 1 I lalf o mat i on s, e t c. 674 Road traffic accidents 120 Other violent causes 492 All other causes 2912 6 38 6 111 146 115 307 58 7 28 163 17850 1000 1.