Key Health Data for the West Midlands 2002

Table 7.3: Rates of dwelling fires by PCT, per 1,000 dwellings, summed over four years, 1998/9 to 2001/2, across the West Midlands metropolitan county



PCT
Accidental dwelling fires per 1000
Arson dwelling fires per 1000
All dwelling fires per 1000

Coventry

59.6

17.3

76.9

Dudley Beacon & Castle

23.9

7.4

31.3

Dudley South

34.6

6.0

40.6

Eastern Birmingham

24.4

10.3

34.6

Heart of Birmingham

49.6

18.3

67.9

North Birmingham

12.0

2.3

14.2

Oldbury & Smethwick

19.7

11.2

30.9

Rowley Regis & Tipton

21.0

8.4

29.4

Solihull

28.0

9.6

37.6

South Birmingham

44.4

20.5

64.9

Walsall

43.7

14.8

58.5

Wednesbury & West Bromwich

23.0

8.3

31.3

Wolverhampton

60.6

23.8

84.3

 

Source: West Midlands Fire Service



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