[Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Westmorland County Council.

  • Westmorland (England). County Council.
Date:
1934
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Credit: [Report 1934] / Medical Officer of Health, Westmorland County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DEATH RATE, 1934. Death Rates per 1,000 population. No. of Death Rate 1934. Crude Death Death Death District; Deaths 1934. Crude. Stand¬ ardised. Death Rate 1933. Rate 1932. Rate 1931. Rate 1930. Urban. Ambleside .... 29 12.4 10.3 12.9 10.1 18.6 14.3 Appleby 29 18 14.9 20.4 13.0 10.1 15.3 Grasmere .... 17 22.3 16.9 12.7 17.4 15.0 11.6 Kendal 244 15 13.9 15.2 15.1 14.5 13.8 Kirkby Lonsdale 14 9.7 8.05 13.1 16.2 15.1 10.3 Shap 21 17.9 16.6 17.2 17.5 15.9 15.8 Windermere 75 13.5 10.8 16.6 13.1 15.3 12.3 Rural. East Westmorland 164 15.5 13.02 14.7 14.3 14.2 14.9 South Westmorland 235 12.7 11.1 13.6 12.4 12.0 10.6 West Ward 65 10.2 9.4 42.6 13.6 12.1 11.1 Westmorland 893 13.8 12.1 14.5 13.7 13.6 12.7 England & Wales — 11.8 12.3 12.0 12.3 11.4 Crude death rate for aggregate of Westmorland Rural Areas ... ... ... ... 13.1 For Urban ,.. ... ... ... 14.7 Standardised death rate for aggregate of Westmorland Rural Areas ... ... ... ... 11.5 For Urban ... ... ... ... 12.7 The standardised death rate is explained by the Registrar-General as follows:—“ If the population of all areas were similarly constituted as regards the proportions of their sex and age group components, their crude death rates (deaths per 1,000 population) could be accepted as valid comparative measures of the mortalities experienced by the several populations. In practice, however, popula¬ tions are not thus similarly constituted, and their crude death rates fail as true comparative mortality indexes.” Accordingly the Registrar-General supplies a correcting factor for each district, the effect of which is to make com¬ parable the death rate of one district with another district or with the country as a whole.