[Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Herefordshire / County of Hereford County Council.

  • Herefordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1921
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Credit: [Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Herefordshire / County of Hereford County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / existence or living on doles is discontented. One must also take into consideration the vast amount of suffering which the first method does away with, even if the actual financial saving is not great. As stated by Dr. Gold in the last Report the ideal is undoubtedly “ a strict but sane economy with efficiency ” and not a wholesale scrapping of sanitary effort the result of which would be very detrimental to the general health of the population. I have to report that the good results obtained last year as a consequence of the work of the Council have been maintained as the following statistics show :— Population of the County and Calculated Rates. The population of the County at the Census of 1921 was found to be 113,113, hut after correction was made for visitors only temporarily resident, the Registrar-General has corrected the figures for the County to 111,829, of whom 39,778 belong to the Urban Districts and 72,051 to the Rural Districts. 1921. 1920. Birth Rate 21.8 .....24 2 Death Rate 12.6 _.13.0 Infant Mortality Rate (per 1,000 Births) 04 61 Death Rate—Pulmonary Tuberculosis 0.93 0.87 Death Rate—all Forms of Tuberculosis 1.22 .....1.09 Death Rate from Cancer 1.38 —1.22. Birth Rate The Birth Rate for 1921 is 21.8 per 1,000 of the population, and is 2.4 per 1,000 less than in 1920. It is only 0.6 per 1,000 lower than the figure for England and Wales as a whole. Death Rate . The Death Rate is the lowest recorded^ for the County, being 12.6 per 1,000 and is 0 5 per 1,000 higher than the corresponding figure for England and Wales. The fact that the Death Rate has been so low for two years in succession is very gratifying, and must mean a substantial saving in lives. Infantile Mortality. The Infantile Mortality for 1921- is 63 per 1,000 births, and compares favourably with the figure of 83 for England and Wales as a whole.