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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Romford 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]
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I am sanguine that the Isolation Hospital now, I am pleased to
say, in a fair way of being established, will be the means of checking
very considerably the spread of infectious diseases.
IV.—Tabular Statement of Sickness and Mortality within the
District, according to Diseases, Ages, and Locality.
The birth and death rates of the different localities forming the
Romford Rural District, as shown in the following table, the rates for
the past five years being shown side by side, by way of comparison.
The birth and death rates of the different localities forming the Romford Rural District, as shown in the following table, the rates for the past five years being shown side by side, by awy of comparison
| Locality. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BirthRate. | DeathRate. | BirthRate. | DeathRate. | Birth-Rate. | DeathRate. | BirthRate. | DeathRate. | BirthRate | DeathRate | |
| Dagenham, Beacontree and Chadwell Heaths | 32.4 | 16.2 | 38. 4 | 17.5 | 35.2 | 12.7 | 31.5 | 18.7 | 31.9 | 16.5 |
| Collier Row | 32.3 | 21.1 | 25.6 | 14.6 | 28.04 | 21.3 | 27.05 | 21.1 | 36..04 | 7.4 |
| Havering | 21.2 | 6.4 | 25.5 | 6.3 | 21.05 | 4.2 | 10.2 | nil. | 26.0 | 10.0 |
| Noak Hill, Romford Common, and Squirrels Heath | 25.1 | 12.1 | 25.6 | 9.7 | 11.3 | 12.1 | 32.5 | 12.6 | 30.0 | 12.3 |
| Hornchurch | 35.1 | 10.1 | 29.2 | 16.3 | 29.5 | 12.7 | 30.8 | 13.08 | 27.8 | 12.9 |
| Upminster. Cranham, and Corbets Tey | 24.6 | 10.7 | 24.1 | 11.9 | 24.1 | 6.6 | 23.4 | 10.7 | 21.6 | 15.5 |
| Great Warley | 39.3 | 11.01 | 42.3 | 15.8 | 37.7 | 16.6 | 35.6 | 12.9 | 32.8 | 11.05 |
| Rainham & Wennington | 32.3 | 14.7 | 32.3 | 15.4 | 32.8 | 15.2 | 34.1 | 14.9 | 31.3 | 7.3 |