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THE HEALTH REPORT OF COULSDON & PURLEY
FOR 1942.
INTERIM REPORT.
STATISTICS.
Area (in acres) 11,182
Number of occupied houses, Dec. 1942 15,652.
Number of occupied houses, 193L 9,533.
Rateable Value, December 1942 £748,669.
Sun represented by a penny rate £3,053
Birth Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident
population 17.1
Still Birth Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births 31.8
Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident
population 10.7
Death Rate from Puerperal causes per 1,000 (live
and still) births :-
Puerperal and post abortive sepsis Nil.
Other Puerperal causes 1.10
Death Rates of Infants under one year of age:-
All infants per 1,000 live births 45
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate births 47
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate births Nil.
Deaths from Measles (all ages) Nil.
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) Nil.
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 1.
VITAL STATISTICS.
BIRTHS.
The Birth Rate for 1942, was 17.1 per 1,000, as
compared with 12.6 in 1941 and 12.3, 13.5, 13.4 and 12.8 for the
preceding four years. The average Birth Rates locally for the
four quinquennial periods from 1915-34 were 13.9, 13.5, 12.9 and
11.6. Nationally the Birth rate was 15.8 in 1942 compared
with 14.2 in 1941.
The sudden increase in the Birth Rate, especially
locally, undoubtedly reflects the influence of war-time
conditions and particularly those relating to the phase of the
war through which we were passing during 1942, some of which
influences are common knowledge.
The percentage of total births which were illegitimate
was 4.8, which is less than that in 1941 (5.7) and less than the
average during the. last war though higher than the average rate
which appertained 10 or 15 years ago.
The local stillbirth rate was 0.56 per thousand
population, compared with 0.42 in 1941 and 0.35 in 1940. The
stillbirth rate for England and Wales in 1942 was 0.54.
DEATHS.
The crude Death Rate for the year was equal to 10.7
per thousand of population, as compared with 11.6 and 11.5 in
the two previous years and 8.9, 7.9, 8.5 and 8.5 for the
preceding four years.
The crude Death Rates for England and Wales were 11.6
in 1942, 12.9 in 1941, 14.3 in 1940 and 11.9 in 1939.