[Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough.

  • Eastbourne (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1925
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Credit: [Report 1925] / Medical Officer of Health, Eastbourne County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    s VITAL STATISTICS. MARRIAGES. There were 414 marriages registered in 1925. This is a marriage rate of 15.0 per 1,090. In 1924 there were 366 marriages and 381 in 1923. The average pre-war rate was 13.1 per 1,000. The highest recorded rate was 21.2 in the year 1915, and the lowest 11.32 in 1895. BIRTHS. The births registered in Eastbourne in 1925 numbered 689, males 354, and females 335. To these must be added 13 births where the mothers w'ere temporarily out of East- bourne at the time of birth, and on the other hand 41 must be deducted of cases where the mothers were temporary residents only. Tw^enty-eight births have therefore to be deducted from the total of 689, leaving 661 as the nett number of births, or a drop of five as compared with the previous year, and of 58 as compared with the year 1923. The births in recent years have been as follows • Ten years, 1895-1904 average 916 Ten years, 1905-1914 average 879 Four years, 1915-1919 . . average 704 1920 993 1921 796 1922 733 1923 719 1924 .. 666 There were five more deaths than births in 1925. The excess of the number of births over that of deaths in 1924 was 69 ; in 1923, 196 ; in 1922, 146 ; in 1921, 158 ; in 1920, 456; in 1919, 106; and in 1918, only 25 (not including deaths of those on service). 'I'he birth-rate calculated on the Registrar-General’s Office estimate of the population was 12.0 per 1,000. In recent years the highest birth-rate was 21.8, in 1915, and the lowest 12.1, in 1918 and 1919.