[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon].

  • Croydon (London, England). County Borough.
Date:
[1943?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1942. Area, 12,617 acres. Population (Census 1931), 233,115. Population (estimated middle of 1942), 195,600. Number of Inhabited Houses (1931 Census), 56,429. Over crowding Census (1936), 65,550. Rateable Value (1st April, 1942), £2,519,314. Product of a Penny Rate (1941—1942), £9,387. Rate in the £: 12/8d. Gross expenditure on Health Services (ad ministered bv Medical Officer of Health) £254,085 Income on Health Services (excluding trans fers) 61,238 Net expenditure on Health Services £192,847 Expressed as a Penny Rate, 17.92 pence in the pound. l ive Births M. F. Total Legitimate 1,680 1,529 3,209 Illegitimate 147 115 262 3,471 Birth-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population, 17.7. Still Births 108. Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births, 30.18. Birth-rate per 1,000 (live and still births), 18.3. Deaths, 2409 (Registrar-General's figures). Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population, 12.32. Deaths from diseases and accidents of pregnancy and child birth, 12; from sepsis, 3; other causes, 9.