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Coulsdon and Purley 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon]
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THE HEALTH REPORT OF COULSDON & PURLEY
for 1945.
INTERIM REPORT.
STATISTICS.
| Area (in acres) | 11,142. |
| Number of occupied houses, December 1943 | |
| Number of.occupied house , December 1951 | 9,533. |
| Rateable value, December 1943 | |
| Sum represented by a penny rate | £3,020. |
| Birth Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population | |
| Still Birth Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births | 36.4 |
| Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population | |
| Death Rate from Puerperal causes per 1,000 (live and still)births:- | |
| Puerperel and post abortive sepsis | |
| Other maternal, causes | 1.07 |
| Death Rates of Infants under 1 year of age All infants per 1,000 live births | 36 |
| Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate births | 34 |
| Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate birth | |
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | |
| Deaths from-Whooping Cough (all age's) | 1 |
| Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years) | 3 |
VITAL STATISTICS.
BIRTHS.
The Birth Rate for 1945 was 17.4 per thousand of population,
as compared with 17.1 last year, and 12.6,, 12.5, 13.5; 13.4;
12.8 and 12.5 in the preceding six years. The rate for 1945 was
much the highest Birth Rate experienced in the District. The
corresponding Birth Rates for England and Wales were 16.5 in
1943; and 15.8 14.2, 15.1; 14.9 14.8 and 14.7 in the preceding
six years.
The percentage of total births, which were illegitimate
was 5.7 which. is the same as in 1941 an the average for
1915-19 locally, although about twice the percentage for the prewar
years.
The local Stillbirth Rate was 0.66 per thousand of
population,as compared with O.56 0.42 and 0.55 in the last
three years and a rate of 0.51 for England and Wales in 1943.
DEATHS.
The crude Death Rate for the year was equal to 10.5 per
thousand of population, as compared with 10.7 last year, and
11.6, 11.5, 8.9, 7.9. 8.5, 7.9, 7.6 arid 7.1 in the preceding
eight years.
The crude Death Rates in England and Wales were 12.1 in
1945, and 11.6, 12.9, 14.5, 11.9 11.6, 12.4, 12.1 and 11.7 in
the preceding eight years.
Of the deaths which occurred in Coulsdon and Purley in
1945, 59 per cent. were over 65 years of age-, compared with 56
per cent. last year and an average of 55 per cent. for the five
years ending 1959 and. 45 per cent. for the five years 1926-50.
The present figure is not really comparable owing to the
absence of an increasing poportion of younger persons in the
Services.