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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
Ilford 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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The death-rate, calculated on the Registrar-General's estimate
of the population of 82,693, is 9.0 per 1,000, as compared
with 9.9 in 1919; 13.0 in 1918; 10.5 in 1917; 8.5 in 1916; 10.5 in
1915; 8.8 in 1914 ; 9.45 in 1913 ; 8.3 in 1912 ; 9.4 in 1911 ; 7.9 in
1910.
Table I. gives a comparative statement of the estimated gross
population, birth-rate and death-rate for the past five years.
Table III. gives a classified statement of the causes of death in
1920, arranged according to the age groups at which death
occurred.
Table Ia. give's a comparison of the vital statistics of Ilford,
with England and Wales, London and other Towns.
Inquests: 32 inquests on Ilford residents were held during the
year.