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Leoton urban District Council.
ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT
FOR 1920,
BY
J. FRANCIS TAYLOR, M.R.C.S., D.P.H.
Medical Officer of Health.
ASSESSABLE AND RATEABLE VALUE.
The present assessable value for general district purposes is
£518,638 7s. 6d., and a rate of Id. in the £ produces £2,100.
For poor rate purposes the rateable value is £541,575 5s. 0d.,
and a Id. rate produces £2,218 0s. 0d.
AREA, INHABITED HOUSES, POPULATION.
The district has a total area of 2,594 acres; at the end of June
it contained 23,747 houses. Four new houses were erected in the
district during the year.
At the 1911 census the population numbered 124,736, which
number divided among the inhabited houses gave an average of
5.63 persons per house.
In this report the estimate of population used in calculating
the various rates is given by the Registrar-General. The figures
are based on the returns furnished under the scheme for the
rationing of food.
BIRTHS.
2,914 births were registered—1,495 males and 1,449 females.
To these must be added 127 male and 97 female births (transferable)
received from the Registrar-General, which yields a birthrate
of 24.6 per 1,000 of the copulation.
Of the above, 98 were illegitimate births, 51 being males and
47 females.
Percentage of illegitimate births, 3.1.