[Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield R.D.C.

  • Chesterfield (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1898
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Credit: [Report 1898] / Medical Officer of Health, Chesterfield R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    estimate of the population which cannot be far from the truth; basing my calculation upon the number of inhabited houses in each Parish and taking the total of their estimated populations as that of the District, I estimate the Population at the middle of this year to have consisted of 67,920 persons occupying 12,754 houses. Barlow had 45 houses less, Brackenfield and Wpodthorpe each one less, and Stretton the same number as at the time of the census. Ashover had 38 more, Beighton 158, Brimington 149, Calow 47, Coal Aston 28, Dronfield Woodhouse 3, Eckington 192, Heath 10, Holmesfield 5, Killamarsh 142, Morton 6, North Wingfield 76, Pilsley 61, Shirland and Higham 17, Staveley 418, Sutton-cum-Duckmanton 48, Tapton 44, Temple Normanton 10, Tupton 27, Unstone 18, Wessington 7, and Wingerworth 2. The greatest numerical increase was in Staveley, but the greatest proportional in Tapton, which has more than doubled the number (40) it had at the time of the last census. Birth Rate.- —The number of Births registered as occurring in the District was 2,393—1,209 Males and 1,184 Females,—and 6 children—2 Males and 4 Females,—were born in Chesterfield Workhouse of parents belonging to the District. The addition of these gives 2,399 as the number of Births for the District, equivalent to a Birth Bate of 35'32 per 1,000 living, which is much higher than the rate for England and Wales, which is 29’4, and about the same as that for 1897, though this last was calculated on too small an estimated population. The highest rates obtained in Stretton and Temple Normanton, and the lowest in Woodthorpe, but these phenomenal figures are of comparatively small value, for as a slight alteration in the number of events occurring in a small population makes a great difference in the percentage. The rates for the more thickly populated parishes were satisfactory, those for Brimington, Killamarsh, North Wingfield, Staveley, Tupton, and Unstone being well above that for the District, as was also that for the parish of Morton.