[Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council.

  • Radnorshire (Wales). County Council.
Date:
1931
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Credit: [Report 1931] / Medical Officer of Health, Radnorshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Co the Chairman and fllembers of the Radnorshire County Council. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have the honour to present my eleventh Annual Report on the Health Administration of the County for the year 1931. POPULATION.—Pages 7 and 8. Information is given in regard to censal increase or decrease in each district during 1921-31. Particulars of the intercensal variation, excess of births over deaths, and migration are as follows:— Intercensal Excess of Births Variation. over Deaths. fMigration 1911-21. 1921-31. 1911-20. 1921-30. 1911-21. 1921-31. Urban Districts -132 + 189 * + 232 * + 80 -364 + 109 Rural Districts -736 -597 + 1385 + 1002 -2121 -1599 County -868 -408 + 1617 + 1082 -2485 -1490 *The population of Llandrindod Wells for the Census year 1921 is taken as 2801 (the estimate of the Registrar-General for 1922, after correction for non-residents). tWar deaths, which occurred outside the County, are included as losses by migration ; the estimate for England and Wales is 3'1 per cent of the population. During the period 1901-11, there was an increase in the population of the urban districts of 595, and a decrease in the rural districts of 1286 ; the decrease for the County was 691. In the period 1921-30, there was migration into the urban dist- ricts of 109 (Knighton +104, Llandrindod Wells +79, and Pres- teigne -74) ; 1599 migrated out of the rural districts, compared with 2121 for the period 1911-20. The total migration out of the County for the period 1921-30 was 1490 compared with 2485 in the period 1911-20. In the period 1921-30, there was a reduction in excess of births of 535, in comparison with the previous 10 years ; the excess in connection with the urban districts for the period 1921-30 was only 80.