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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
West Ham 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Summary of General Statistics.
Area (acres) 4,706.
Population—
Census, 1921, 300,860.
Estimated, 1929, 307,600, as per Memorandum from
Ministry of Health dated 28/1/1931.
Number of inhabited houses (1921). 47,995.
Number of families or separate occupiers (1921), 68,569.
Average Rateable Value—
General Rate, £1,381,901.
Sum represented by a Penny Rate—General District Rate, £5,758.
Vital Statistics.
| Total | Male | Female | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | Legitimate | 5472 | 2834 | 26.38 | Birth Rate | 18.2. | |
| Illegitimate | 134 | 63 | 71 | ||||
| Still Births, | 190 | ... | Rate per 1,000 total births, | 33 | |||
| Deaths, | 3,263 | Death Rate, | 10.6 | ||||
| Percentage of total deaths occurring in public institutions | 42.0 | ||||||
| Maternal Mortality Rate | 2.8 | ||||||
| Death Rate of Infants under one year per l,000 live births:— | |||||||
| Legitimate, 62.1; Illegitimate, 97.0. Total, 62.9. | |||||||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 78 | ||||||
| Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) | 19 | ||||||
| Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 41 | ||||||
Vital Statistics of the Wards of the Borough, 1930.
| Wards. | Births | Birth Rate | Deaths | Death Rate | Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality per1,000 births | Natural increase Births over Deaths | Estimated population middle of 1929. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Town | 319 | 16.80 | 204 | 10.74 | 12 | 37 | 115 | 18,984 |
| Forest Gate | 288 | 14.70 | 218 | 11.12 | 8 | 27 | 70 | 19,590 |
| High Street | 359 | 19.24 | 189 | 10.12 | 29 | 80 | 170 | 18,658 |
| Broadway | 277 | 18.08 | 169 | 11.03 | 15 | 54 | 108 | 15,312 |
| Park | 256 | 16.37 | 163 | 10.42 | 12 | 46 | 93 | 15,630 |
| Upton | 250 | 14.11 | 165 | 9.31 | 9 | 36 | 85 | 17,717 |
| Plashet Road | 258 | 16.22 | 169 | 10.63 | 19 | 73 | 89 | 15,897 |
| West Ham | 256 | 14.36 | 178 | 9.98 | 15 | 58 | 78 | 17,819 |
| Plaistow | 349 | 16.03 | 222 | 10.20 | 22 | 63 | 127 | 21,762 |
| Bemersyde | 205 | 13.78 | 150 | 10.08 | 13 | 63 | 55 | 14,873 |
| Canning Town and Grange | 551 | 22.24 | 261 | 10.54 | 33 | 59 | 290 | 24,770 |
| Hudsons | 313 | 15.08 | 234 | 11.28 | 23 | 73 | 79 | 20,743 |
| Ordnance | 421 | 20.31 | 211 | 10.18 | 31 | 73 | 210 | 20.726 |
| Beckton Road | 448 | 21.75 | 204 | 9.90 | 29 | 64 | 244 | 20,597 |
| Tidal Basin | 627 | 27.77 | 310 | 13.73 | 56 | 89 | 317 | 22,575 |
| Custom House and Silvertown | 429 | 19.54 | 216 | 9.84 | 27 | 62 | 213 | 21,947 |
| County Borough | 5,606 | 18.22 | 3.263 | 10.6 | 353 | 62.9 | 2,343 | 307,600 |