London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Edmonton 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: TABLE IVital Statistics of Whole District during 1913 and previous years.

TABLE I

Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1913 and previous years.

YearPopulation estimated to Middle of each Year.Births.Total Deaths Registered in the DistrictTransferable DeathsNett Deaths belonging to the District.
Uncorrected Number.Nett.Number.*Rate.Of Non-residents registered in the District.†Of Residents not registered in the District.†Under 1 Year of age.At all Ages.
Number.†Rate.Number.*Rate per 1,000, Nett Births.Number.*Rate.
12345678910111213
190656,8l81,8811,82232.0791515.55256124248131.8478313.78
190759,4341,9231,85731.2497715.89309124225121.1679213.32
190860,1822,0001,93132.0990214.50297129227117.4173212.16
190961,1641,8711,80329.4889014.09325110182100.3967511.03
191061,7411,9611,87830.4287213.563769414074.555879.51
191163,1461,9211,84729.251,21918.68489100265143.4883013.14
191265,0841,8441,76527.121,12616.7656310314984.4266610.23
191366,5521,9121,86227.981,18417.31501111196105.2679411.93

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Notes.—This Table is arranged to show the gross births and deaths in the district, and
the births and deaths properly belonging to it with the corresponding rates. The rates in
column 7 are calculated per 1000 of the estimated gross population, but as Edmonton is a
district in which large Public Institutions for the sick or infirm seriously affect the statistics,
the rates in Columns 5 and 13 may be calculated on a nett population, obtained by deducting
from the estimated gross population the average number of inmates not belonging to the
district in such institutions.
* In Column 6 are included the whole of the deaths registered during the year as having
actually occurred within the district.
‡ "Transferable Deaths" are deaths of persons who, having a fixed or usual residence
in England or Wales, die in a district other than that in which they resided. The deaths of
persons without fixed or usual residence, e.g., casuals, must not be included in Columns 8 or
9, except in certain instances under 3 (b) below.
The following special cases arise as to Transferable Deaths:—
(1) Persons dying in Institutions for the sick or infirm, such as hospitals, lunatic asylums,
workhouses, and nursing homes (but not almshouses) must be regarded as residents of the
district in which they had a fixed or usual residence at the time of admission. If the
person dying in an Institution had no fixed residence at the time of admission, the death is not
transferable. If the patient has been directly transferred from one such Institution to another,
the death is transferable to the district of residence at the time of admission to the first
Institution.
(2) The deaths of infants born and dying within a year of birth in an Institution to which
the mother was admitted for her confinement should be referred to the district of fixed or
usual residence of the parent.
(3) Deaths from Violence are to be referred (a) to the district of residence, under the
general rule; (b) if this district is unknown, or the deceased had no fixed abode, to the district
where the accident occurred, if known; (c) failing this, to the district where death occurred,
if known ; and (d) failing this, to the district where the body was found.
Area of District in acres (land and 31 acres of inland water) 3,894
Total population at all ages 64,797 At
Number of inhabited houses or tenements 12,491 I Census
Average number of persons per house or tenement 5.00 of
including Institutions 5.19) 1911