Report of the City Health Department / City of Winnipeg.

  • Winnipeg (Man.). Health Department.
Date:
[1936]
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Credit: Report of the City Health Department / City of Winnipeg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Report of the Medical Health Officer City Health Department, Winnipeg, Man., May 10th, 1987. Chairman and Members of the Committee on Health. Madam and Gentlemen: I have the honour to submit for your consideration, a summary of the annual report of the Health Department for the year 1936. This includes the reports of the heads of divisions and a statement of, the cost of the year’s work. SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS Corrected and Crude Figures Area of City: Land, 14,865 acres; water, 422 acres; total, 15,287 acres. (23.9 square miles) 1936 1935 Population (City Assessor’s figures) _ 224,533 223,017 Persons per acre of land _ 15.10 15.00 Corrected Deaths, excluding stillbirths _ 1,746 1,580 Corrected rate per 1,000 population _ 7.77 7.08 Deaths of infants under 1 year _ 117 120 Corrected infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births 43.1 41.9 Deaths, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough and diphtheria, combined _ 23 6 Corrected rate per 100,000 population _ 10.2 2.7 Births, excluding stillbirths _ 2,714 2,862 Corrected live birth rate per 1,000 population_ 12.08 12.83 Stillbirths _ 63 98 Corrected rate per 1,000 live births _ 23.2 34.2 Natural increase, excess of births over deaths _ 968 1,282 Corrected rate per 1,000 population _ 4.32 5.75 Crude Deaths, excluding stillbirths _ 2,039 1,841 Rate per 1,000 population _ 9.08 8.25 Deaths of infants under 1 year _ 160 163 Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births _ 44.4 43.0 Births, excluding stillbirths _ 3,599 3,791 Rate per 1,000 population _ 15.53 17.00 Stillbirths _ 97 122 Rate peer 1,000 live1 births _ 26.95 32.18 Marriages .... _ 2,717 2,596 Rate per 1,000 population _ 12.05 11.64