[Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow.

  • Glasgow (Scotland)
Date:
1910
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Credit: [Report 1910] / Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As with the marriage-rate so it is with the birth-rate when calculated over the total population, and a correction similar to that adopted in calculating the former is here introduced, save that the amended birth-rates are calculated on the number of females living between the ages of 15 and 45 years. Again there is illustration that the decrease shown in calculating the birth-rate over the whole population falls short of that which is actually occurring, and that although it is now 39 per cent, below the rate for 1870-72, when calculated on the whole population, the actual reduction amounts to 44 per cent, when calculated on the number of women at child-bearing ages. Glasgow.—Mean Annual Birth-Rate * Calculated as a proportion per 1,000 on Total Population at All Ages. Calculated as a proportion per 1,000 on the Number of Women aged 15-45 years. Rate per 1,000. Compared with Rate in 1870-72, taken as 100. Rate per 1,000. Compared with Rate in 1870-72, taken as 100. 1870-72 40-9 100 173-5 100 1880-82 35-9 88 150-7 86 1890-92 35-2 86 125-6 72 1900-02 324 79 124-2 72 1910 251 61 97-2 56 Returning to the usual method of stating these rates, we for several periods since 1871:—* Glasgow. have the following Scotland. 1871-80, 36-6 34-9 1881-90, 36-5 32-4 1891-95, 33-9 30-7 1896-1900, 331 30-0 1901-1905, 31 -3 28-9 1906, 29-4 27-9 1907, 28-3 27-0 1908, 27-8 27-2 1909, 26-5 26-4 1910, 25-1 25-2 While from these figures it would appear that the birth-rate for Glasgow is now only equal to that for the country as a whole, the discrepancies between the estimated and the actual populations in both groups make the results of doubtful value. Based on the Medical Officer’s estimate of the population, and adjusted births, the rate is equal to 27'6 per thousand persons living, and this may be taken as a fairly accurate indication of the actual rate. There is considerable variation in the rate throughout the several Wards. In Hutchesontown, Mile-end, Springburn, and Dalmarnock, it exceeds 35 per thousand in the order named, while in Calton, Whitevale, Cowlairs, Black- friars, Anderston, Govanhill, Maryhill, and Kinning Park it is between 30 and 35 per thousand. In Townhead, Broomielaw, Cowcaddens, and Kingston the rate is in excess of the mean for the city. The rates in these Tables are taken from the Registrar-General’s Annual Reports.