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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 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]

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Table: 2.—Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.

2.—Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.

1927.1928.
Total number of Births Registered—
Legitimate1,6131,704
Illegitimate4435
1,6571,739
Birth-rate per 1,000 of population15.815.8
Total number of Deaths Registered-
Males506462
Females502462
1,008924
Death-rate per 1,000 of population9.68.4
Number of Women dying in, or in consequence of, Childbirth—
Sepsis12
Other causes45
57
Maternal Mortality per 1,000 births3.04.0
Total number of Deaths of Infants under
1 year of age—
Legitimate6569
Illegitimate910
7479
Infant Mortality per 1,000 births—
Legitimate4040
Illegitimate204285
Infant Mortality per 1,000 registered
births44.045.4
Total number of Deaths from seven
principal Zymotic Diseases3032
Zymotic death-rate per 1,000 of population.29.29
Total number of Deaths from—
Measles (all ages)—5
Whooping Cough87
Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age)810