Weymouth Rural District (RD) : Life & Death Statistics

Created: 1894   Abolished: 1933

These simple graphs compare Weymouth with national trends:

Time Series Period Covered Description
Fertility Rate 1911 to 1931 Live births per thousand women aged 20 to 49. The General Fertility Rate is usually defined relativ…
Illegitimacy Rate 1911 to 1933 Illegitimate Births as a percentage of all births. Until quite recently, vital registration statist…
Infant Mortality Rate 1911 to 1933 Deaths per thousand live births. This is a good overall measure of the health of a population, alt…
Standardised Mortality Ratio 1911 to 1931 The actual number of deaths as a percentage of the expected number, computed from mortality rates f…

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

Time Series Period Covered Variables (number of categories)
Births by legitimacy 1911 to 1933 Legitimacy (2)
Births by legitimacy & sex 1911 to 1933 Legitimacy (2)
Sex (2)
Births by sex 1911 to 1933 Sex (2)
Deaths by sex 1922 to 1933 Sex (2)
Infant Deaths 1911 to 1933 Infant Deaths (4)
Total Births 1911 to 1933 Total Live Births (1)
Total Deaths 1911 to 1933 Total Deaths (3)

Read more about how we hold statistics here.