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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
Tottenham 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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on the Palace Gates Branch there is 1 station, in West Green Road.
The L. & N.E. system communicates centrally with Liverpool Street
Terminus.
Trams and buses also connect the City with the District. The central
termini of the trams are Liverpool Street, Holborn, Smithfield Market,
Tottenham Court Road, Aldersgate and Aldgate.
The buses convey passengers across London to Camberwell Green,
Victoria, Southfields, Sidcup and Shooters Hill.
The population is mainly of the working, artisan and clerical classes.
Allusion has been made in the foreword to the numbers travelling to
and from the City.
The chief industries in the District are the following:—Cabinetmaking,
pencil-making, piano-making, dress, blouse and mantle-making,
building, the manufacture of sweets, stationery, indiarubber, emery
cloth, brushes, cyclostyle materials, lamps, boots and shoes, toys, joinery,
electrical fittings, silk braid weaving, brewing and mineral water
manufacturing, bedstead and scientific instrument-making and motor
manufacturing.
BIRTHS.
| Births Registered:—Males | 1,388 |
| Females | 1,368 |
| Total | 2,756 |
| Including Illegitimate Births:—Male | 31 |
| Female | 30 |
| Total | 61 |
| Births occurring in the district | 2,275 |
| Births of Tottenham residents occurring outside the district | 481 |
| Total | 2,756 |
Birth Rate, 17.6 per 1,000.
Births notified under the Notification of Births Acts:—