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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 1915
Report for the year 1915 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Section A.
NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE
BOROUGH.
SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1915.
Population estimated to middle of 1915 81,760
Density „ „ „ 36.9 persons per acre
Births 1,327
*Birth-Rate 15.3
Marriages 951
Marriage-Rate 23.22
Deaths 994
Death-Rate 12.1
Infantile Mortality 76.1 per 1000 births
Notifiable Infectious Diseases Attack-Rate (excluding
Tuberculosis) 5.1
Notifiable Infectious Diseases Death-Rate „ .2
Death-Rate from the Principal Epidemic Diseases 44
Death-Rate from Pulmonary Tuberculosis 58
Death-rate from All Forms of Tuberculosis 86
CENSUS, 1911.
Population 85,495
Buildings used as Dwellings 11,976
Ordinary Dwelling Houses 10,062
Area of Borough 2265 acres
„ „ (excluding area covered by water) 2253 acres
* By direction of the Registrar-General this rate has been calculated upon the
1914 population, which was 86,731.