Axminster Urban District (UD) : Life & Death Statistics

Created: 1915   Abolished: 1953

These simple graphs compare Axminster with national trends:

Time Series Period Covered Description
Fertility Rate 1921 to 1951 Live births per thousand women aged 20 to 49. The General Fertility Rate is usually defined relativ…
Illegitimacy Rate 1915 to 1952 Illegitimate Births as a percentage of all births. Until quite recently, vital registration statist…
Infant Mortality Rate 1915 to 1952 Deaths per thousand live births. This is a good overall measure of the health of a population, alt…
Standardised Mortality Ratio 1931 to 1951 The actual number of deaths as a percentage of the expected number, computed from mortality rates f…

We hold these detailed statistics for Axminster, which we graph and tabulate here:

Time Series Period Covered Variables (number of categories)
Births by legitimacy 1915 to 1953 Legitimacy (2)
Births by legitimacy & sex 1915 to 1953 Legitimacy (2)
Sex (2)
Births by sex 1915 to 1953 Sex (2)
Deaths by sex 1922 to 1953 Sex (2)
Infant Deaths 1915 to 1953 Infant Deaths (4)
Total Births 1915 to 1953 Total Live Births (1)
Total Deaths 1915 to 1953 Total Deaths (3)

Read more about how we hold statistics here.