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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
Hampstead 1903
Report for the year 1903 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Summary of Vital Statistics for 1903.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2253 acres.
Population (Census, 1901) 81,942.
,, Estimated to middle of 1903 85,197.
Density 37.6 persons per acre.
Inhabited Houses (Census, 1901) 11,294.
Marriages 597.
Marriage Rate 7.0.
Births 1453.
Birth Rate 17.05.
Deaths 837.
Death Rate 9.8
Infantile Mortality 86.7 per 1000 births.