[Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council.

  • Staffordshire (England). County Council.
Date:
1928
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Credit: [Report 1928] / Medical Officer of Health, Staffordshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tlit populations of the various districts used in cal¬ culating the birth and death rates have again been supplied by the Registrar General. Those of the Perry Barr Urban District, which have been affected by the extension of West Bromwich C.B., the City of Birmingham and the borough of Sutton Coldfield Extension Order, have been adjusted for the calculation of birth and death rates and are shown in the General Mortality Tables at the end of the Report. The births and deaths are inclusive of those registered before the transfer took place. With the exception of one district, viz., Richfield Rural, where there is a large Barracks, a single population is shown and this is applicable to both births and deaths. The Registrar General supplies a “ standardising factor ’ ’ for correcting death rates in districts with a population of over 10,000. The rates produced by this method are strictly comparable, the factor being based on the age and sex of the population as indicated at the last census. The standardised death rates in those areas in which this method can be applied are shown in the Tables at the end of the Report. The estimates of population as at the 30th June, 1928, which are now provided, have been based on the adjusted 1921 figures, after allowance for varying rates of natural increase as evidenced by the births and deaths in each area and of migration as indicated from other sources of infor¬ mation, such as the changes in the numbers on the parlia¬ mentary register and the migration returns obtained by the Board of Trade. In the following table, the census population ol the Administrative County for 1921, and the estimated population to the middle of 1928, are set forth Census, 1921 Estimated Population as at middle of 1928. Urban 492,333 500,560 Rural. . 218,532 * 210,540 Total f 710,865 711,100 * The estimated population for the birth-rate in the rural districts is 212,280. •j- The Census population of the Administrative County as now con¬ stituted is less than tins figure by about 48,700, owing to the absorption of certain districts in the extended County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent referred to in my Annual Report for 1922, the extension of Wolverhampton County Borough, 1927, and the extension of West Bromwich County Borough, Birming¬ ham City, and Sutton Coldlield Borough.