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THE HEALTH REPORT OF COULSDON & PURLEY
for 1944.
INTERIM R E P O R T
STATISTICS.
Area (in acres) 11,142
Registrar-General's estimate of population, 1944 50,240
Population, Census 1931 37,666
Number of occupied houses, December 1944 15,872
Number of occupied houses, December 1931 9,533
Rateable value, December 1944 £744,493
Sum represented by a penny rate £2,940
Birth Rate per 1,000 of the estimated
resident population 16.9
Still Birth Rate per 1,000 (live and. still) births 24.0
Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated
resident population 2.9
Death Rate from Puerperal causes per 1,000 (live
and still) births:Puerperal
and post abortive sepsis Nil.
Other maternal causes 2.29
Death Rates of Infants under 1 year of age:-
All infants per 1,000 live births 33
Legitimate infants per 1,000
legitimate births 33
Illegitimate infants per 1,000
illegitimate births 26
Deaths from Measles (all ages) Nil
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) 2
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2. years) 2
AREA AND POPULATION.
The District has an area of 11,182 acres, this being
2,547 more than before the last revision of boundaries in 1933.
The fluctuations in the population are most clearly
shown by the following figures:-
1915 Registrar-General's estimate 17,920
1921 Census 1,493
1931 Census 73,666
1938 Registrar-General's estimate 55,070
1939 -do- -do- -do- 55,060 - 56,400
1940 -do- -do- -do- 50,920
1941 -do- -do- -do- 46,820
1942 -do- -do- -do- 49,760
1943 -do- -do- -do- 51,660
1944 -do- -do- -do- 50,240
It is considerod locally the population in
September 1938 was just under 59,000 and in mid 1939 was at
least 60,000.
At the time of the preparation of the National
Register the number of residents (including the residents in the
local institutions) was only 50,415 chiefly owing to unofficial
evacuation, and about 45,000 in December 1940. A rise to
46,820 in mid 1941 was followed by a fall to 43,350 in December
1941. Thereafter the figures in the above table are the most
reliable to hand at the time of the preparation of this report.
In 1915 there were 4,141 occupied houses, in December
1938 there were 15,431 occupied houses and in December 1944 there
were 15,872, in spite of the fact that during the war nearly 300
houses have been destroyed by enemy action.