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Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births :—
Legitimate 63.9. Illegitimate 293. Total 68.3.
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 18
„ „ Whooping Cough (allages) 4
„ „ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 14
Population.
Early 1930 saw the completion of the development of the
Beeontrce Estate in Dagenham, and the cessation of the rapid
increase in population which occurred in the preceding years.
At mid-year, the number of inhabited houses was 19,300,
made up of some 15,000 Estate houses, 1,800 houses built before
1921, and 2,500 houses erected since that year.
The average population per Estate house for the three preceding
years was 4.9. Taking the age group 25 to 44 as unity,
the factors for the other age groups in the Estate population would
he, age group 0 to 14, 1.3, group 45 to 49, 0.4, and group over
50,0.1.

85 deaths occurred amongst the tenants of houses built before
1021. Of these, some 70% were of persons over 45 and the general
distribution amongst the age-groups indicates the existence of a
population of some 9,000 of normal a»e distribution.
Only 34 deaths occurred amongst the residents of houses
erected since 1921. The age-group distribution of these shows
that. this population is abnormally constituted, being in the same
wanner as the Estate population deficient in old age population
hut not to the same extent, as persons over 45 arc about one-third
represented. Calculated on the death rate occurring in the
Population of younger ages, the total resident population in these
houses would be some 6,500.