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Stepney 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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| Area of Borough (in acres) | 1902.766 | ||||
| Population (.1933) (Registrar-General's estimate) | 219,100 | ||||
| Number of inhabited houses (end of 1933) according to Rate | Books 37,738 | ||||
| Rateable value | £1,723,488 | ||||
| Sum represented by a penny rate | |||||
| Total. | Male. | Female. | |||
| Live Births | Legitimate | 3,199 | 1,639 | 1,560 | Birth rate 15.1 |
| Illegitimate | 54 | 66 | |||
| Still Births | 103 | 50 | 53 | Rate per 1,000 total births 31 | |
| 2,834 | 1,522 | 1,312 | Death rate 12.9 | ||
| Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth: | From sepsis | 3 | |||
| From other causes | 9 | ||||
| The death rate was 3.G1 per 1,000 births. | |||||
Death rate of Infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births :
| Legitimate | 62.5 | Illegitimate | 141 | Total death-rate | 65.3 | |
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 1 | |||||
| „„ Whooping Cough (all ages) | ||||||
| „„ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 62 | |||||
| „„ Respiratory Tuberculosis | 203 | |||||
| „„ Other Tuberculous Diseases | 32 | |||||
| „„ Cancer | 347 | |||||
| „„ Heart Disease | 526 | |||||
| „„ Zymotic diseases | 111 | |||||
1 STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
The estimate of the Registrar-General to the mid-year 1933 is 219,100.
The total number of births of Stepney residents during the year was 3,319
—1,693 males and 1,626 females—or 409 less than in the previous year.
849 of the births belonged to Limehouse.
574 of the births belonged to St. George-in-the-East.
Topulation
Births.