[Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council.

  • Warwickshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1914
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Credit: [Report 1914] / Medical Officer of Health, Warwickshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6. In the Annual Report of the Registrar General for 1913, the natural increase in Popula¬ tion is dealt with, that is the excess of Birth-rate over Death-rate. This figure for Warwickshire is 11-8 per l,(JtO living, ccmparcd with 10-2 for the County at large. In only ten of the Counties in England and Wales was the natural Increase greater than liekshii'c, those Counties being:— Brecknockshire. 12 -2 Staffordshire 13 -6 Middlesex 12 -6 Nottinghamshire 13 -8 Northumberland 12 -7 Durham ... 15 -5 Derbyshire ... 12 -9 Monmouthshire ... 17 0 Carmarthenshire 13 0 Glamorganshire ... 17 -8 7. In the Urban Districts of Warwickshire the Natural Increase was 10 -2 per 1,000 living, and in the Rural Districts 13 T. This high figure for the Rural Districts com¬ pared with 9 -5 for similar districts in England and AValcs is accounted for by the extra¬ ordinarily high Natural Increase in Coventry Rural, which in 1913 was according to the Registrar GeneraTs estimation 65 T. The population of this Rural District, in virtue of its proximity to the thriving tRy «f Coventry, has increased enormously since the 1911 Census, and is now estimated at 1,900, an increase of 1,318 since 1911. The Natural Increase in 1914, based on the estimated population of 1900, is 30 -5, still an exceptionalh^ figure—and the Natural Increase for the County as a whole in 1914 is 11 T 2)er 1,000 living. BIRTHS. 8. There were 7,385 Births registered, as compared with 7,557 in the previous year. Of these. 3,164 were in the Urban Districts, and 4,221 in the Rural Districts. These figures show a Birth-rate of 23 -07, compared with 24 T7 in the 25revious year. The disapjjoint- ment that the 1913 Rate has not been at least equalled, is added to by the fact that the jrresent figure is the lowest on record with the exception of 1911, when it was 22 -80. 9. The Birth-rate in the Urban Districts was 21 -20, as against 22 -85 in 1913, and in the Rural Districts it has fallen to 23 -46, eomjiared with 25 -21 in the jorevious year. 10. In the Urban Districts, Nuneaton had the highest Birth-rate, viz. :—29'9, while in Bulkington it was 25 -4, in Kenilworth it was 23 -1, and in 'Warwick 23 -0. The lowest rate \\ as again in Leamington Spa with 16 -5, while Stratford-on-Avon with 18 -9 and Sutton Coldfield with 18 -2 were both very low. 11. In the Rural Districts Coventry shows the satisfactory figure of 34 -73, the other Districts exceeding the average being :—Nuneaton 31 -6, Eoleshill 30 -8, Tamworth 29 -0, Atherstone 28 -45, Southam 25 -0, and Rugby 24 -9. The rates recorded in the following Districts are very low :—Farnborough 13 -49, Monks Kirby 14 T, Alcester 15 -5, Solihull 16 T, Warwick 16 T, Stratford-on-Avon 18 -8. and Brailes 19 -0. DEATHS. 12. During the 3fear, 3,827 deaths were registered in the County, namely, 1,707 in the Urban, and 2,120 in the Rural Districts. This gives a Death-rate of 11 -95, which is not only a decrease on the previous 3'ear, when it was 12 T2, but wdth the cxccpticn of 1910, when it was 11 -60, is the lowest death-rate ever recorded in the County. 13. The Death-rate in the Urban Districts was 12 -18, and in the Rural Districts 11 -78. 14. Once more Rugby and Sutton Coldfield have the lowest Death-rates in the Urban Districts with 9 -0 and 9 -9 respectively. Bulkington comes next with 11 '4, which is very satisfactory, seeing that in the previous tw'o years it held the undesirable position of having the highest Death-rate. Its rate in 1912 was 16 -0, and in 1913, 17 -4. The figures in the following Districts wxrc all above the average ;—Stratfoid-on-Avon 12 -7, Nuneaton 13 T, Leamington Spa 13 -4, Kenihvorth 14 -4, Warwick 14 -9. 15. As exirlained in last year’s Report a factor wus issued by the Registrar General which enables us to determine what the Death-rate wuuld be supposing the constituent as regards age and sex was the same as in the eountiy as a whole. In order to make this correction at the Census it was neeessarj^ to multiply the Death-rate of the County by -9247, and this is probably the same to-day. Adopting this factor, we find that the corrected Death-rate for the County' is still further reduced, becoming 11 -05, and proves our Death-rate to be a highly satisfactory one.