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METROPOLITIN BOROUGH OF STEPNEY
Telephone
STEpney Green
2484
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT
43, White Horse Road,
Stepney,
London, E.l,
To The Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my report on the state of the public
health in Stepney for the year 1956.
The population of the Borough according to the Registrar-General's
estimate is 98,160, a decrease of 20 from last year. The population in
the Census year, 1951, was 98,581. The rateable value of the Borough
increased by almost a million pounds, due to revaluation, and the penny
rate now produces nearly double the former income.
The live birth rate* is 19.44 (18.59)≠, the death rate 12.08 (12.04),
the marriage rate 19.9 (19.5), the maternal mortality rate nil (1.07),
the infant mortality rate 22.52 (23.00) and the neonatal mortality rate
17.81 (18.07). There were 42 stillbirths, giving a rate of 21.53 (21.95).
The weather during the year was not good though the winter was mild.
A full report appears in the text.
There were no major epidemics of infectious diseases during the year.
Notifications decreased from 2,677 to 1,324 chiefly due to the reduction
in measles which tends to recur in biennial periods.
*Rates
Death rate - number of deaths per annum per 1,000 population.
Stillbirth rate - number of stillbirths per annum per 1,000 total
live and still births.
Live birth rate - number of live births per annum per 1,000 population.
Infant mortality rate - number of deaths per annum of infants under
one year of age per 1,000 live births.
Maternal mortality rate - number of deaths per annum of women ascribed
to pregnancy, childbearing, abortion, etc. per 1,000
live and still births.
*The figures in parenthesis refer to the previous year, 1955.
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